He studied under the distinguished philosopher and mathematician St. George Ashe, who also tutored his elder schoolfellow and ultimate lifelong friend Jonathan Swift.
After wartime service in the Army Air Forces and the Signal Corps, he earned master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under the distinguished folklorist MacEdward Leach.
John, the son of a high-ranking military officer, was brought up as a Christian by his widowed mother and was intended for the law, to which end he studied under a distinguished pagan rhetorician, Libanius.
There is no indication at all of the monstrous goings-on under that distinguished forehead, no hint that he has spent most of his life frequenting brothels and strip clubs, drinking himself into a stupor and gambling like a thing possessed.
He then did his graduate studies under the distinguished classical scholar Chester Starr who was also my teacher.
After 1908 Abd al-Rahman was allowed to live in Omdurman and study under a distinguished Azharite named Muhammad al-Badawi, where he gained some understanding of Islamic jurisprudence and the fundamentals of his religion, including the Hadith, or Prophet's tradition.
After World War I, Murray served briefly on, and then on the newly commissioned HMS Calcutta under the distinguished British Captain Percy Noble, from whom Murray learned the basic skills of command, and who eighteen years later served opposite Murray on the receiving end of the convoys as Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches Command.
To be the Smithsonian of modern American music, it needs not just to riff off of Miles Davis and the other non-rockers, but to embrace the bigger picture of American popular music and bring all of it under one distinguished roof.
The following year, with František's approval, he enrolled at Prague's Academic Grammar School under Josef Jungmann, a distinguished poet and linguist who was a leading figure in the movement for Czech national revival.
