THE tale of an exceptional scholar-athlete torn between playing his final football game and competing for a Rhodes scholarship gave way to a darker story in The Times recently — one involving accusations of sexual assault, and told exclusively through anonymous sources.
In 1858, the London Missionary Society Press (Mo Hai Shu Kuan) in Shanghai published a translation titled Chih-wu hsüeh (Botany) (Fig. 1), which was compiled and translated by Alexander Williamson and Joseph Edkins, two British missionaries (Fig. 2), and Shanlan Li (Fig. 3), an exceptional scholar in the late Qing dynasty.
Although he was an exceptional scholar, he lacked the political ability to outface even clerical opponents.
He was an exceptional Solidarity scholar and the union's first and only American archivist.
This support helped us bring together an exceptional gathering of scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America for a highly productive few days of discussion.
But his "Missa Nigra sum" — a Mass setting performed by the Tallis Scholars, an exceptional British vocal ensemble, on Wednesday night at St. Thomas Church — had no direct connection to that work, or to the passage from Solomon, for that matter.
So, instead of the study of ancient Greece being predicated on its uniqueness – its isolated, exceptional and untouchable brilliance – some scholars are recasting the Greek world (and, in different ways, the Roman world) as part of a series of networked cultures in multivoiced conversation with the lands lying east and south of the Mediterranean.
Under certain rules, exceptional hands picturesquely named "the three scholars," "four small blessings," and so on are scored differently.
The annual awards, voted on by the nearly 400 members of the organization, recognize exceptional work by artists, curators, critics, scholars, cultural institutions and others.
Two, the most exceptional of these kids, the Point Scholars, are the new voices that will emerge.
