Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast " had a pronounced religious character " and comments that " it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages.

At the age of thirteen Huxley attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and continued to develop scientific interests ; his grandfather had influenced the school to build science laboratories much earlier.

He had been a National Merit Scholar at Coral Gables High, an all-white school in Florida.

Before this Carleton had hoped to obtain an education as a poor scholar at Munster, with a view to entering the church ; but he was shaken by an ominous dream, the story of which is told in the Poor Scholar, and he returned home.

In an article appearing in the Glasgow Herald on 29 September 1936 it was noted that John Cairncross had scored an " outstanding double success of being placed 1st in the Home List and 1st in the competition for the Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service ," and that he had been placed 5th in the ( Glasgow University ) bursary competition of 1930, and was also a Scholar and Bell Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was cremated at Golders Green, but his ashes were returned to Llanwern, where they lie alongside the bodies of previous squires of Llanwern ( although D. A. Thomas ' monument is by far the largest-" on a recent visit to Llanwern, it took me two circuits of the churchyard to find the tomb, since I had initially mistaken it for the War memorial ", in the words of one D. A. Thomas Scholar ), his wife and daughter.

Scholar, composer and clergyman, Obrecht seems to have had a succession of short appointments, two of which ended in less than ideal circumstances.

In a column filed with the Copley News Service Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and James Madison Scholar with the American Legislative Exchange Council, while conceding the Greenpeace had a right to advocate its beliefs, railed against non-profit groups having a tax-deductible 501c ( 3 ) entity that can transfer funds to a non-deductible 501 c ( 4 ) entity.

Scholar Tom Shippey believed that Shea was too familiar to those who had read The Lord of the Rings: he found that Shea and Flick were " analogues " for the hobbits of Tolkien's stories.

He has had a long-standing affiliation with the California Institute of Technology, as a Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology in 1987, as a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar in 1993 and as a part-time Visiting Professor 1995-1998.

Prior to Bursary being replaced by the National Certificate of Educational Achievement Rangitoto had at least one student recognised as New Zealand's top scholar in a subject between 2001 to 2003 ; in 2003 Rangitoto had three four top-scholars including Top all-round Female Māori Scholar.

Married with several children, he was considered to be a brilliant scientist and had been a Rhodes Scholar.

MCC is the only community college to have Jack Kent Cooke Scholars in three consecutive years, and the only one to have had a student named a Truman Scholar after being nominated by their community college, with MCC having accomplished that feat five times since the 1980s.

In 2007, Acharya announced that Google Scholar had started a program to digitize and host journal articles in agreement with their publishers, an effort separate from Google Books, whose scans of older journals do not include the metadata required for identifying specific articles in specific issues.

However, no Crown Prince Scholar had her / his scholarship revoked.

In addition to publishing, Bradley works with the CityBridge Foundation ( formerly the Advisory Board Foundation ), which participates in education projects in the Philippines, where Bradley had been a Fulbright Scholar.

She had visitors, often fellow poets, including two specifically named men: Scholar Ton Phong Thi and a man only identified as " The Imperial Tutor of the Nguyễn Family.

In 2008-09, the Pirates had 24 student-athletes earn 25 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete distinctions, and six Park student-athletes were named to NAIA All-America teams, including Jon Meriweather, who was named to the NAIA All-America team to record his school-record fifth All-America distinction.

In 2000, the school had its first Million Dollar Scholar.

The Portuguese Scholar and traveler Barbosa had also described this place.

Funk had bachelor's of divinity and master's degrees from Butler University and its affiliated Christian Theological Seminary in 1950 and 1951, a PhD in 1953 from Vanderbilt University and was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

Scholar Germaine Greer has said that " it is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock.

The reading of Grace before dinner ( ante prandium ) is usually the duty of a Scholar of the College ; Grace after dinner ( post prandium ) is said by the President or the Senior Fellow dining.

Scholar and fellow World War II veteran Hugh Nibley said it was the most accurate book he ever read about the military.

The College Grace is said by a Scholar ( a student who achieved a First Class mark overall in the previous year ) at the beginning of Formal Hall, and is as follows:

Scholar Georges-Claude Guilbert, who wrote Madonna as postmodern myth: how one star's self-construction rewrites sex, said that the fan symbolized fiery desire aroused by Monroe as well as ritual sacrifice, eerily foreshadowing her untimely death in 1962.

Mr. Fawad Ali Lauhany, an M. Phil Scholar of the Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar ( Pakistan ), has written a thesis entitled, " A Critical Analysis of Dr. Israr Ahmad's Views on Islamic Revolution " and submitted it to the said university in 2009.

Scholar H. R. Ellis Davidson states that Sif may have been an ancient fertility goddess, agreeing with a link between her lustrous hair and fields of golden wheat.

Scholar John Lindow proposes that a potentially understated mythological importance of Sif's role in the story of her sheared hair exists ; her headpiece is created along with the most important and powerful items in Norse mythology.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that Skaði's cult may have thrived in Hålogaland, a province in northern Norway, because " she shows characteristics of the Sami people, who were renowned for skiing, shooting with the bow and hunting ; her separation from Njord might point to a split between her cult and that of the Vanir in this region, where Scandinavians and the Sami were in close contact.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson comments that " some of the power of the old tale of Gefjon, creator of the islands, has been superbly expressed in the great fountain at the water's edge in Copenhagen, depicting her ploughing through the sea in a cloud of rising spray with her giant beasts.

A number of intellectuals have served as the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the institute, including Nancy Pearcey who taught a worldview curriculum based on her book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity ( Crossway, 2004 ).

While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.

Ho graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering ( Electrical, First Class Honours ) after completing her pre-university education at National Junior College where she emerged as a Student of the Year and was a President's Scholar.

Serena is a Scholar first and foremost and not really adept at combat, acting as a support character to the others using her supernatural senses, resilience and the powers over the Dead to aid the party.

Scholar Liliane Arensberg suggests that Angelou " retaliates for the tongue-tied child's helpless pain " by using her adult's irony and wit.

Scholar Mary Vermillion compares Angelou's treatment of rape to that of Harriet Jacobs in her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

In 1988, she received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the National University of Singapore, and attended Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990 as a Fulbright Scholar.

She was a National Merit Scholar ( 1995 ) and graduated as valedictorian of her class.

Born in Hayling Island, Hampshire as the eldest child of Sarah Georgina Megaw and her husband James Allen Bell ( the vicar of the Island, and later a canon at Norwich Cathedral ), Bell was elected as a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School in 1896.

In addition to her books, Bevington's work appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The American Scholar.

At its 20th Anniversary Symposium on March 6, 2010, following panel discussions on body, economy, and movement, CWGL organized a tribute to its founder, Charlotte Bunch, who transitioned on September 1, 2009 from her role as Executive Director to working with CWGL in her new capacity as Founding Director and Senior Scholar.

Melissa was chosen as ' The Scholar ' and won the full ride scholarship to the university of her choice, namely Pomona College.

She entered New York University School of Law in 1979 as a Root-Tilden Scholar and received her J. D.

Keohane earned her first undergraduate degree in 1961 from Wellesley College, and her second bachelor's degree at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.