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Latin for 'field' — because debt-financed self-discovery needs a nicer word than 'field'.
means The grounds and buildings of a college or university, considered as a single place.
from Straight from Latin 'campus,' meaning 'field' or 'open, level ground' — the same root that gave us 'campaign' (originally military operations conducted in open country) and 'champagne' (the French region named for its chalky plains). The word jumped into English for 'college grounds' in the 1770s at Princeton, where the open land around the main building got called, somewhat grandly, the campus — and the name stuck to spreading lawns everywhere since.
- origin
- Latin campus means open field or plain
- first use
- Princeton applied it to grounds in 1770s
- design trick
- quads built to feel timeless, not functional
- economics
- dorms cost more per square foot than luxury condos