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A liberal arts education is generally described as having three sub-divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.
humanities = encompassing subjects that study humanity and are thought to be most subjective
- Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. (source)
- I was guilty of being a humanities major, but I began to suspect that there was more to my problems.† (source)
- The Academy had been set up by a clutch of now-dead rich liberal bleeding hearts from Old New York as an Arts-and-Humanities college at some time in the last third of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the Performing Arts — acting, singing, dancing, and so forth.† (source)
- I expect this is some second great schism, where two humanities will live, apart but parallel.† (source)
- Baba smiled on, the way he did when Hector came by the week before to see him, the way he did when I showed him my application to the College of Arts and Humanities at San Francisco State.† (source)
- Holds a chair in the humanities at Fordham.† (source)
- All this had been why I walked blindly up to Humanities Hall instead of returning directly to my dorm.† (source)
- He asks more about Cedric's classes, and then they talk about English and the humanities versus science and math.† (source)
- It was a mixed humanities and social sciences course and he stuck it out for eighteen months.† (source)
- Welcome to Humanities for First Year Apprentices.† (source)
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- Deo went on reciting, not realizing he was murmuring aloud: "He felt the weight of his ignorance, -- not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet."† (source)
- It was called the New York Public Library of Humanities and Social Sciences.† (source)
- The new series, with a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was filmed throughout the country during 2003.† (source)
- Amanda says, "Humanities?† (source)
- As a schoolboy he had been expelled for helping political prisoners escape; he had then tried several art schools, but in the end had become a student of the humanities.† (source)
- Max stepped forward and took a metal thermos from his Humanities instructor.† (source)
- I read it during Humanities—in Morrow's favorite book, of all things!† (source)
- The traitorous Humanities instructor sat unblinking in his A MIDNIGHT TEMPEST — 425 chair while a baka clung to the white, tangled beard that had grown during his imprisonment.† (source)
- I was on my way to Humanities and saw him go through the door at the end of the hall, the one that goes to the tower.† (source)
- Not long after this, when Tom told Rachel he'd had enough of mixed humanities and Chicago and that he was going back to Montana, she got mad.† (source)
- The Humanities instructor raised a bottle of champagne to Max and took a sip before passing it back to Mr. Watanabe and Miss Boon, who followed suit.† (source)
- He absorbed an immense amount of information and after taking his degree in the humanities trained himself later in science and mathematics.† (source)
- No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!† (source)
- The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him — its peaceful enjoyments no charm.† (source)
- Winsett did not invite people to his house; but he had once pointed it out to Archer in the course of a nocturnal stroll, and the latter had asked himself, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals.† (source)
- He returned to the institution where he had been a pupil and was given a position as prefect, a supervisor of the students, a teacher of philosophy and humanities.† (source)
- Where are you in your Latin humanities?† (source)
- He felt the weight of his ignorance,—not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet.† (source)
- One can discern, in his ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him; his delight in troops of friends, in large hospitality, in cheerful giving.† (source)
- All, all for immortality, Love like the light silently wrapping all, Nature's amelioration blessing all, The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain, Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.† (source)
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