1. The limits of charlatanism are sooner reached in STEM than in the humanities (or, a fortiori, in newspaper op-ed writing). Yet having said that, I think the humanities are very much worth studying.<p>2. Do the student tours emphasize labs? I was on a a few tours in 2006 and 2007, and I'm fairly sure we saw all the libraries, but I don't remember labs.<p>3. Could the proportional decline of the humanities owe something to the multiplication of majors?<p>4. Ah, analogies. The use of bad analogies from the 1930s (late for the right, early for the left) has had a very bad influence on all sorts of thinking since. It's not just finding analogies, it's finding ones that make sense.