Scholars suspect this may be traced to a time when a goat was either the prize in a competition of choral dancing or was that around which a chorus danced prior to the animal's ritual sacrifice.

Scholars suspect, but have no way to prove, that the lack of such records indicates official connivance in flouting of the prohibition.

Scholars suspect that the transfer of these regulations to 49th or 50th year was a deliberate attempt to parallel the fact that Shavuot is 50 days after Passover, and follows seven weeks of harvest ; this parallel is regarded as significant in Kabbalah.

Scholars suspect that it simply means priest, either as a loan word from the Minaean lawi ' u, meaning priest, or by referring to those people who were joined to the ark of the covenant.

Scholars suspect that Ligurios was a pale yellowish mineral, and although Chrysoprase now refers to a specific gemstone-Chrysoprase-which is generally apple-green in colour, in earlier times it referred to gems of a yellowish leek-green, such as Peridot ; Chrysoprase literally means golden leek.

Scholars suspect that these descriptions of tzaraath, where it applies to skin conditions, actually refer to a number of different skin diseases, which, owing to the undeveloped state of medical science at that period, were not distinguished.

Scholars suspect that some other interpolations are present: including the whole of chapter 7, and some additions, difficultly determinable in extension, in 29: 3-13.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

Scholars disagree whether a former President barred from election to the Presidency is also ineligible to be elected Vice President, as suggested by the Twelfth Amendment.

Scholars now reject the former notion, but note that there were certain traditions and practices used in both the Irish and British churches but not in the wider Christian world.

The exciting possibilities afforded by this scenario, as well as the spectacular worship setting of the College's neo-Gothic Chapel, have enabled the College to attract a very high calibre of applicants for its Choral and Parry-Wood Organ Scholarships, and former Organ Scholars include Robert Sharpe ( Director of Music, York Minster ), Christopher Herrick ( International Concert Organist and former Organist, Westminster Abbey ), and David Trendell ( Director of Music, King's College London ), as well as the current Directors of Music at Rugby, Charterhouse, Sherborne, and Latymer Upper Schools.

WVU has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars, including former WVU president David C. Hardesty, Jr.

Scholars agree that the group's influence has waned since the end of World War II, with the growing importance of Jews, Catholics, and other former outsiders.

Morehouse is one of two black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African-American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Howard Thurman, filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, musician Lil Jon, former Bank of America Chairman Walter E. Massey, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, and former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, among others.

Students graduating in the top ten percent of the class are designated " Arjay Miller Scholars ", named after the former dean, Arjay Miller ( 1969 – 79 ).

There is also a Guild of Scholars of the City of London, which was formed to encourage former pupils from the three ‘ City Schools ’ to develop links with The City of London.

Peter Gay ( born June 20, 1923 ) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers ( 1997 – 2003 ).

Friedberg is a former fellow at the Smithsonian Institution ’ s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Harvard University ’ s Center for International Affairs.

He became friends with former President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford ; during his studies there he translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs into English.

Selection committees in each region, consisting of former Scholars and other distinguished individuals, receive university-endorsed applications ( including personal statements and essays ) which are used to select a short list of candidates for interviews.

Between 1714 and 1718 ( the exact date of which is unknown ), the ring was increased to ten with the addition of two trebles given by two former ringing Societies, the Eastern Youths and the British Scholars.

* Debra H. Sowell, former secretary and board member of the Society of Dance History Scholars

He briefly headed a side project called Pal with fellow former Scholars member Jesse Wilder, but then started The Littlest Man Band, which featured Dan Regan from Reel Big Fish, Vincent Walker from Suburban Legends, and three members of The Scholars.

He is a former Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the United States Institute of Peace.

More recently he formed The Forces of Evil with former members of Jeffries Fan Club, The Scholars and Lone Raspberry.

Scholars differ in their explanation of these differences, and no consensus has emerged.

Scholars such as Peter Auer and Li Wei argue that the explanation of the social motivation of code-switching lies in the way code-switching is structured and managed in conversational interaction ; in other words, the question of why code-switching occurs cannot be answered without first addressing the question of how it occurs.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

Scholars such as Dierk Lange attribute the decline of ancient Ghana to numerous unrelated factors, only one of which can be likely attributable to internal dynastic struggles that were instigated by Almalvorid influence and Islamic pressures, but devoid of any military conversion and conquest.

Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis " or J. V. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent " a special enquiry to Egypt " and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims.

Scholars have identified several passages in Jeremiah that can be understood as “ confessions ;” they occur in the first section of the book ( chapters 1-25 ) and are 11. 18-12. 6, 15. 10-21, 17. 14-18, 18. 18-23, and 20. 7-18.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

As an incentive to students, University Scholars receive a free tuition, a laptop, a " cultural passport " that offers free or reduced-admission to various cultural institutions and venues in New York City, and a $ 7500 expense account that may be used for research and / or study abroad.

Scholars generally consider the views of existentialist philosophers to be profoundly different from one another relative to those of other philosophies.

Scholars generally agree that the theme of divine promise unites the patriarchal cycles, but many would dispute the idea that a single theme ( or theology ) runs through Genesis – a theology of the Abraham cycle or the Jacob cycle or the Joseph cycle might be possible, or a theology of the Yahwist or the Priestly source, but not a single theology or overarching theme for all of Genesis.

Scholars had to decide which hadith were to be trusted as authentic and which had been invented for political or theological purposes.

Scholars hope that fiqh and sharia are in harmony in any given case, but this cannot be assured.

( Scholars have debated whether Marx's comments about the proletariat can be analyzed in the context of the working class ).

Scholars have long seen Webster's 1844 dictionary to be an important resource for reading poet Emily Dickinson's life and work ; she once commented that the " Lexicon " was her " only companion " for years.

Applications must be made at least three months early, and, with only minor exceptions ( e. g., Organ Scholars ), are mutually exclusive for first undergraduate degrees so, in any one year, candidates may only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both.

Some Scholars suggest that the command to abstain from leavened food or yeast suggests that sacrifices offered to God involve the offering of objects in " their least altered state ", that would be nearest to the way in which they were initially made by God.

Scholars disagree whether anyone no longer eligible to be elected president could be elected vice president, pursuant to the qualifications set out under the Twelfth Amendment.

Scholars continue to debate the degrees to which racial categories are biologically warranted and socially constructed, as well as the extent to which the realities of race must be acknowledged in order for society to comprehend and address racism adequately.

Scholars such as Helck think that the context was meant to be serious.

Scholars believe the language of Ebla to be among the oldest known written Semitic languages.

Scholars describe the word sharia as an archaic Arabic word denoting " pathway to be followed ", or " path to the water hole ".

Scholars generally consider Tacitus's reference to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate to be both authentic, and of historical value as an independent Roman source.

Scholars traditionally view Thucydides as recognizing and teaching the lesson that democracies need leadership, but that leadership can be dangerous to democracy.

Scholars debate whether the Victorian period — as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians — actually begins with the passage of Reform Act 1832.

The new Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community, a dormitory for honors students, is to be completed Fall 2012.