Humanities Disciplines In many people’ s eyes, the humanities disciplines seem to be dying out. However, actually, students continue to enroll in humanities courses and lots of scholarship is still published. The humanities disciplines feel dislocated, because they appear to have lost their (1) ______. And the most important one is exactly what those roots were. (1) ______ The history of higher education in the United States since (2) ______can be divided (2) ______ into 2 periods. Ⅰ. the first period (1945--1975): a period of (3) ______and known in the literature on American education as the (3) ______ Golden Age, during which the composition of the higher education system changed not too much, but the size of the system (4) ______dramatically. (4) ______ This expansion includes three factors: 1) the baby boom: a period of record (5) ______that followed a period of record (5) ______ low birth rates--the (6) ______and the Second World War; (6) ______ 2) the relatively high domestic economic growth rate after (7) ______; (7) ______ 3) the Cold War: American university had been drawn into the business of government-related (8) ______research during the Second World War. (8) ______ Ⅱ. the second period (1975--present) a period of (9) ______, during which the size of the system has grown at a much (9) ______ more (10) ______ pace and the composition has changed dramatically. (10) ______