Historically, Varanasi has been an educational center within India, drawing students and scholars from across the country.

The stated purpose of the journal was to draw scholars in Europe, America, and East Asia closer together.

This plan came to fruition in 1723/24 when he decided to draw foreign scholars to Russia and create a scientific academy in St. Petersburg.

"The addition of a facility that draws scholars and artists to their downtown - that can't be anything but good for Stamford."

The faculty is drawn from prestigious academic institutions and are highly respected scholars in their disciplines.

At one time the mosque itself was one of the world's pre-eminent centres of learning, drawing scholars from Europe and across the Arab world.

But inside, photographs, costumes, posters, books and contemporary art offer an overview of Kurdish culture that draws scholars, journalists and politicians from around the world.

The tiny bookstore was a "kind of Upper West Side salon that drew literary giants, earnest scholars, and neighborhood eccentrics."

Drawing scholars together from different disciplines, it seeks to develop a comparative perspective that places Korean affairs in dialogue with historical, global and theoretical changes.

B1 The New School for Social Research has rebounded and is once again drawing top students, educators and scholars say.