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  • Shamsoun, Natnael, and Yousph were all accepted at Pfeiffer University, a liberal arts college in North Carolina.   (source)
    liberal arts = intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills
  • Oh no, nothing like that, just a liberal arts course.   (source)
  • We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts.   (source)
    liberal arts = studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
  • "Well," he said after a moment, "setting aside the study of the liberal arts, which we discussed the other day, I suppose the rules of being a princess would begin with a refinement of manners.†   (source)
  • …dad asked Josh some more questions, like where was he going to college in the fall (he hasn't decided yet, but he's applying to all the Ivy Leagues) and what does he plan on studying (business), and then my mom asked him what was wrong with a liberal arts education, and Josh said he was really looking for a degree that would guarantee him a minimum salary of eighty thousand a year, to which my mom replied that there are more important things than money, and then I said, "Gosh, look at…†   (source)
  • Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, after the storm of June 13, 1892.†   (source)
  • She had not gone to college, $234,000 worth of elite liberal arts education, for a job like that.†   (source)
  • Her expression was animated over dinner as she explained that Black Mountain College was a liberal arts school founded in 1933, whose faculty included some of the most prominent names in the modern art movement.†   (source)
  • But he didn't trust all the liberal arts girls who found him romantic, his scars from a birthmark and beatings things they wanted to cure.†   (source)
  • Wick Sachs was an undergrad at the time, a liberal arts student, very brilliant mind.†   (source)
  • Brown's math department is particularly strong for a school so widely known for liberal arts.†   (source)
  • "Gardening, in the perfection to which it has been lately brought in England, is entitled to a place of considerable rank among the liberal arts," declared the ultimate authority, Thomas Whately.†   (source)
  • This followed their spirited discussion about university funding (liberal arts versus sciences) over cocktails, which had come after a protracted debate about environmental policy during lunch.†   (source)
  • By the time I got out of the army, Caroline had earned an undergraduate degree in liberal arts.†   (source)
  • In less than two weeks of art classes, I transferred from the Liberal Arts College to the College of Art.†   (source)
  • If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.†   (source)
  • Selective, challenging, with an emphasis on liberal arts.   (source)
    liberal arts = studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills
  • I knew I didn't want to major in anything practical like business or engineering, and toward the end of my freshman year, I started talking to other liberal arts majors.   (source)
    liberal arts = related to studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
  • Six roof panes blew from the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • Every building, including the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, was outlined in white bulbs.†   (source)
  • Peleovits suggests one of Brown's liberal arts fortes, maybe Political Theory.†   (source)
  • Raised in grand homes in cosmopolitan cities, educated in the liberal arts, graced with idle hours, and exposed to the finest things, though the Count and the American had been born ten years and four thousand miles apart, they had more in common with each other than they had with the majority of their own countrymen.†   (source)
  • Three weeks later another storm destroyed eight hundred feet of the south wall of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • At one point he was called upon to help make reporters understand how truly immense the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be.†   (source)
  • Much of the park was still barren land, and the biggest building, Manufactures and Liberal Arts, was barely under way.†   (source)
  • The tests yielded similar results—until Gottlieb's men came to the site intended for George Post's gigantic Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • Burnham ordered his key contractors—including Agnew & Co., erecting the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building—to stop work immediately.†   (source)
  • A bit too tremendous, he noted cattily, at least in the case of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building alone had ten, plus two large restaurants, one German, the other French.†   (source)
  • Only one of the eight towers of the Ferris Wheel was in place and workers had not yet completed repairs to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • The elevators in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, touted as one of the wonders of the fair, still had not begun operation.†   (source)
  • Men working at the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building heard the shriek of failed steel and ran for cover.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the boulevard, looming like an escarpment in the Rockies, stood the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • On Dedication Day even the press was polite enough to overlook the stark appearance of the grounds and the unfinished feel of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • If successfully erected, George B. Post's Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building would be the largest building ever constructed and consume enough steel to build two Brooklyn Bridges.†   (source)
  • On July 5, 1894, arsonists set fire to the seven greatest palaces of the exposition—Post's immense Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Hunt's dome, Sullivan's Golden Door, all of them.†   (source)
  • Burnham fought to boost the rate of construction, especially of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, which had to be completed by Dedication Day.†   (source)
  • On the night of June 13, just after nine o'clock, another abrupt storm had struck the fairgrounds, and this one also seemed to single out the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • The October dedication was to take place inside the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, yet as of January only the foundation of the building had been laid.†   (source)
  • Most of the other buildings were well under way, including, incredibly, the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where hundreds of workers swarmed its scaffolds and roof.†   (source)
  • The Woman's Building was nearly finished, all its scaffolding gone; the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building had begun rising above its foundation.†   (source)
  • Dreiser followed the ladies through the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building where, he said, a man "could trail round from place to place for a year and not get tired."†   (source)
  • One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • A great parade brought Burnham and other dignitaries to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where a standing army of 140,000 Chicagoans filled the thirty-two-acre floor.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday night a particularly heavy rain came pounding through Jackson Park, and soon a series of two-hundred-foot cataracts began tumbling from the glass ceiling of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building onto the exhibits below.†   (source)
  • It cheered when the big searchlights atop the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building began sweeping the crowd, and when colorful plumes of water—"peacock feathers," the Tribune called them—began erupting from the MacMonnies Fountain.†   (source)
  • At the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building workers employed by contractor Francis Agnew began the dangerous process of raising the giant iron trusses that would support the building's roof and create the widest span of unobstructed interior space ever attempted.†   (source)
  • It suppressed the dust that rose from the unplanted portions of the grounds—of which, he was disappointed to see, there were far too many—and by now all the roofs were finished, even the roof of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • They arrived at Chicago's Union Depot on Monday, July 17, at eight o'clock in the morning and went immediately by carriage to their hotel, the Varsity, located close enough to the fair that from its second-floor balcony the teachers could see the Ferris Wheel, the top of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, and Big Mary's gilded head.†   (source)
  • Unopened crates and rubbish that just one week earlier had cluttered the interior of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, particularly at the pavilions erected by Russia, Norway, Denmark, and Canada, likewise had been removed, and now these spaces presented "an entirely different and vastly improved appearance."†   (source)
  • With the stink of charred wood still heavy in the air, Burnham closed the roof walks of the Transportation and Manufactures and Liberal Arts buildings and the balconies and upper galleries of the Administration Building, fearing that a fire in the buildings or among their exhibits could start a panic and cause a tragedy of even greater magnitude.†   (source)
  • He went into the back and got his rifle from where he kept it hidden from the fragile liberal arts colonists and Dorland's board of directors.†   (source)
  • Decretals digested, he flung himself upon medicine, on the liberal arts.†   (source)
  • If these things are so, how foolish to ask what is the best education for one or seven or sixty million souls! shall we teach them trades, or train them in liberal arts?†   (source)
  • —he, whom next thyself, Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put The manage of my state; as at that time Through all the signories it was the first, And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed In dignity, and for the liberal arts, Without a parallel: those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies.†   (source)
  • But heaven forbid that, to gratify my own inclination, I should shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts.†   (source)
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