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One of the main branches of learning. A scholar of the humanities studies history, literature, the fine arts, and philosophy.

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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|DAILY BEAST
His 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|DAILY BEAST
Only 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|DAILY BEAST
No 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|DAILY BEAST

Higher education suffers from a breakdown of the humanities.
Can Higher Education Really Save Our Humanity?|James Poulos|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A commanding brow, thoughtful eyes, and a mouth that seemed to respond to all humanities.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster|Daniel Webster
The humanities became the fashion, just as science became the fashion in the nineteenth century.
Education: How Old The New|James J. Walsh
For a considerable period, therefore, the humanities had to be pursued in institutions apart from the universities.
Education: How Old The New|James J. Walsh
He 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-Lytton
Education 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