humanities
One of the main branches of learning. A scholar of the humanities studies history, literature, the fine arts, and philosophy.
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How to use humanities in a sentence
The doctors promise that the initiative will “disarm the boundaries between psychiatry, humanities, and hip-hop culture.”
Hip-Hop Psychology: Using Music to Fight Mental Illness | Charlotte Lytton | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis partner in business, David Packard, similarly gave $1.65 billion to his Packard humanities Institute the year before.
How Does Zuckerberg’s Ebola Pledge Measure Up To Other Bigwig Donations? | Nina Strochlic | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly eight percent of American college students now major in the humanities.
Richard Hofstadter and America’s New Wave of Anti-Intellectualism | David Masciotra | March 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo one studies the humanities or fine arts for their practical value.
Richard Hofstadter and America’s New Wave of Anti-Intellectualism | David Masciotra | March 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHigher education suffers from a breakdown of the humanities.
A commanding brow, thoughtful eyes, and a mouth that seemed to respond to all humanities.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster | Daniel WebsterThe humanities became the fashion, just as science became the fashion in the nineteenth century.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshFor a considerable period, therefore, the humanities had to be pursued in institutions apart from the universities.
Education: How Old The New | James J. WalshHe was affected below all the surface that worldly thoughts and habits had laid, stratum by stratum, over the humanities within.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonEducation in pursuing the so-called “humanities” has been holding up to view a hypothetical man in a hypothetical environment.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment | Ellen H. Richards
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