The chairs are Emory University's "most distinguished academic appointments [...] reserved for world-class scholars who are not only proven leaders of their own fields of specialty but also ambitious bridge-builders across specialty disciplines."

In an email to the President of DePaul, Weizfeld wrote that "Your university has lost a world-class scholar and a much admired teacher in a tenure process tainted by external pressures aiming to shut down academic discussion."

The Company of Scholars The point for many of these travelers is to be in the company of world-class scholars who will lecture, debate and answer questions from sunup to sundown.

Others point out that world-class scholars don't always make the best teachers and worry that the videos will pacify the minds of students rather than stimulate them.

Supposedly keen to bring culture to the backwater of Stockholm, she summoned world-class scholars and belletrists from Europe's four corners, only to ignore them once they arrived.

I am surrounded by world-class scholars and human beings.

Margo still couldn't quite believe that she was herding world-class scholars into the East End on such an important guiding job.

"A few of its people are world-class scholars," he said, "but some you've never heard of."

Let's turn to the man who is culling and updating the next edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: Justin D. Kaplan, biographer of Mark Twain and a world-class scholar.

Though known as a world-class scholar, Rabbi Kanievsky shunned publicity and lived in humble surroundings, teaching, writing and devoting himself to Torah and good deeds.