Bibliographic record
Abstract
Like Jews and Gypsies, Mennonites can see Canada from an extra vantage point, one denned by centuries of separate, nomadic, persecuted history.Distinct traditions give Mennonites a broader, critical perspective we in the mainstream can acquire only by getting to know minority cultures, working to understand them, and looking at ourselves through their eyes.Thus did I contact Winfield Fretz in the winter of 1973, asking how I could arrange for some of my students from the University of Western Ontario to visit the Old Order community near Waterloo.Fretz was then president of Conrad Grebel College.As a junior professor who had met him but once, I hesitated to bother him for help, but I knew no one else to call.Fretz not only set up our visit but took the afternoon to be our guide.He crowded us into the parlor of a minister's farmhouse and let us all sit spellbound by a family's gentleness, simplicity, and intimidating strength.What I remember most was Fretz himself.Information and detail flowed from him, and in their midst not just fascination but reverence for a people whose life is a witness that the best of the twentieth century is not good enough.Fretz's gift to us that day, refined and enlarged by fifteen further years of research, is now offered in these pages to whoever cares to read.It is a useful gift.No Canadian minority can teach what the Mennonites can.Neither aboriginal nor French nor English, neither Catholic nor exactly Protestant, they have yet been here since the eighteenth century.For that long they have practised here the peacefulness, mutuality and equality to which the rest of us from time to time aspire.Their community has specialized, so Fretz writes, "in producing good common people rather than a few heroes of the faith or one or two persons who by one means or another achieved worldly fame."What a noble specialty!
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.816 | 0.803 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".