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 theorize the form was originally used in Ionian dirges, with the name " elegy " derived from the Greek ε, λεγε ε, λεγε-" Woe, cry woe, cry!

Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.

Scholars believe that Hildegard used her Lingua Ignota to increase solidarity among her nuns.

Scholars of the 19th century used chemical means to read palimpsests that were sometimes very destructive, using tincture of gall or later, ammonium bisulfate.

Scholars debate why Rashi chose a particular Midrash to illustrate a point, or why he used certain words and phrases and not others.

Scholars usually refer to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible as the Pentateuch, a term first used in the Hellenistic Judaism of Alexandria, meaning five books, or as the Law, or Law of Moses.

Scholars are not in agreement about whether the calendars used by the Jews before the Babylonian captivity were solar ( based on the return of the same relative position between the sun and the earth ) or lunisolar ( based on months that corresponded to the cycle of the moon, with periodic additional months to bring the calendar back into agreement with the solar cycle ) like the present-day Hebrew calendar.

Scholars investigate questions such as which instruments or voices were used to perform a given work, what tempos ( or tempo changes ) were used, and how ( or if ) ornaments were used.

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.

Scholars interpret this as the case where goods are no longer used in the manner intended by the founder.

Scholars are divided on the question of whether the " Longer Ending " was created deliberately to finish the Gospel of Mark ( as contended by James Kelhoffer ) or if it began its existence as a freestanding text which was used to " patch " the otherwise abruptly ending text of Mark.

Scholars have used the oral histories, archeology, and linguistics to estimate this took place about 2000 years ago, near present-day Detroit. hi

Scholars believe that the name Hun is used to denote very different nomadic confederations.

Scholars have used these chronological considerations to say that Athaliah could not have been Ahab's daughter, but she could have been his sister.

Scholars either dismissed it as a prank or felt unable to identify a sustainable historical context, and the stone was returned to Ohman, who is said to have placed it face down near the door of his granary as a " stepping stone " which he also used for straightening out nails.

Scholars have noted that it is a foreshadowing device and used to attain a coexistence of the past, present and future, a notable aspect of Taoism.

In 2009 International Association of Genocide Scholars used the quote in a letter to Barack Obama related to the Armenian Genocide recognition.

Scholars currently support the theory that the main method was that the moai were " walked " upright ( some assume by a rocking process ), as laying it prone on a sledge ( the method used by the Easter Islanders to move stone in the 1860s ) would have required an estimated 1500 people to move the largest moai that had been successfully erected.

Scholars have used the term " Aramaization " for the process by which the Akkadian / Assyro-Babylonian peoples became Aramaic-speaking during the later Iron Age.

The final part of his legacy was used to establish the Scholars ' Fund in 1997.

Scholars believe that the Grantha script was used when the Vedas were first put into writing around the 5th century CE.

Scholars think the paintings were used as an instructional display to educate and teach the history and laws of the religion.

Scholars think that Luke attempts to legitimate Christianity by rooting it in Israelite tradition as evidenced by Luke constantly relating Christianity to Jewish religion.

In his book Students, Scholars and Saints, Ginzberg quotes the Vilna Gaon instructing, “ Do not regard the views of the Shulchan Aruch as binding if you think that they are not in agreement with those of the Talmud .”

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

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.

Scholars think that the Roman settlement of Mutuantonis was here, as quantities of artifacts have been discovered in the area.

Scholars think that the manuscript was written sometime between Cuthbert ’ s death in 687 and Eadfrith ’ s death in 721 ( BBC Tyne 2012 ).

Some modern Scholars think the Deuteronomic School edited Jeremiah because of the similarity of phrasing between the books of Jeremiah and Deuteronomy.

Scholars think that, after Tutankhamun returned Egypt to the traditional religion, he moved his closest relatives: father, grandmother, and biological mother, to the Valley of the Kings to be buried with him ( according to the list of figurines and drawings in his tomb ).

Scholars today think that examination of surviving copies suggests that somewhere between 160 and 185 copies were printed, with about three-quarters on paper.

Scholars think that cultivation research focuses more on the effects rather than who or what is being influenced.

Scholars think, for instance, that the Golden Light Sutra constellated around the celebrated third chapter.

Scholars of the play think that it was originally written by playwrights Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and some years later heavily revised by another team of playwrights, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, and William Shakespeare.

Scholars currently think that the Fort Ancient culture ( 1000-1650 CE ), an Ohio Valley-based, mound-building society, constructed Serpent Mound about 1070 CE.

Scholars think it likely that this development was founded by the Roman garrison of the nearby Antonia Fortress, who would also have been able to protect it from attack the location of the asclepieion, outside the then city walls, would have made its presence tolerable to the Jews, who might otherwise have objected to a non-Jewish religious presence in their holy city.

Scholars are divided in whether they think the Osage and other groups left before the Beaver Wars.

Scholars have guessed that he was born c. 1590 ; if, as some scholars think, he wrote the Address " To the knowing Reader " in the first quarto of King John and Matilda, he was still alive in 1655.

Scholars now think that Semerkhet's tomb was re-opened and restored when Ramesside priests and kings saw the tomb of king Djer as the ritual burial of Osiris's head.

Scholars are divided over whether these rules originated with Jesus or with apostolic practice.

Scholars in general disagree as to whether there is a substantial, musicological difference between blues that originated in this region and in other parts of the country.

Scholars agree that gumbo originated in Louisiana in the early 18th century, but its uncertain etymology makes it difficult to pinpoint the origins of the food.

Scholars agree with the Akha that they originated in China ; they disagree, however, about whether the original homeland was the Tibetan borderlands, as the Akha claim, or farther south and east in Yunnan Province, the northernmost residence of present-day Akha.

Scholars generally believe that Igbo kingship institutions originated from three sources.

Scholars have concluded that these prehistoric peoples originated from eastern Asia and migrated across the Bering Straits to North America more than 15, 000 years ago.

Scholars and historians believed that the Kundiman originated from the Tagalog town of Balayan, Batangas.

Scholars give greater credence to the notion that it originated with a now-extinct dialect word from the East Midlands in England, where dinkum ( or dincum ) meant " hard work " or " fair work ", which was also the original meaning in Australian English.

Scholars like Casey suppose that Kambuja lineage of the ruling family of ancient Cambodia originated from their legendary patriarch figure called Svayambhuva Kambu.

Scholars and historians believed that Tagalog songs: kumintang and kundiman originated from Balayan.