2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Ups and Downs of the Humanities
verfasst von : Donald Drakeman
Erschienen in: Why We Need the Humanities
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The cartoon cover of a 1935 issue of The Princeton Tiger humor magazine showed Depression-era students lined up at their graduation ceremony to be handed a loaf of bread with every liberal-arts diploma.1 A few months later, the university’s alumni magazine reported on students’ shifting academic interests in a table titled ‘Trend Away from the Humanities’.2 Students concentrating their studies in those disciplines were down by nearly a third from the go-go years of the ‘roaring twenties’.