L.H.D.
Americanabbreviation
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Doctor of Humane Letters.
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Doctor of Humanities.
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Etymology
Origin of L.H.D.
From New Latin Litterārum Humāniōrum Doctor
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Smith College Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, superintendent of public instruction in the state of Washington L.H.D.
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James Reston, L.H.D., columnist and vice president of the New York Times.
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Agnes George de Mille, L.H.D., dancer and choreographer.
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Dorothy Height, L.H.D., civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women.
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Brownell is both L.H.D. and Litt.D., thus surpassing Samuel Johnson by one point, and Hazlitt, Coleridge and Malone by two.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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