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A campus is traditionally the land on which a college

College

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or university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries

Library

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
, lecture

Lecture

A lecture is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher....
halls, residence halls and park-like settings. The definition currently defines a collection of buildings that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic.

The word first was adopted to describe a particular urban space at Princeton University

Princeton University

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A campus is traditionally the land on which a college

College

University

Library

Lecture

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
(known as the "College of New Jersey" then) during the early decades of the eighteenth century. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but "campus" did not yet describe the whole university property. A school might have one space called a campus, one called a field

Field

Field or fields may refer to:* Field , an area of land used to cultivate crops, or to keep livestock* Field of study, a branch of knowledge...
, and another called a yard

Yard

A yard is a Units of measurement of length in several different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units....
.

The meaning expanded to include the whole institutional property

Real property

In the common law, real property refers to one of the two main classes of property, the other class being personal property . Real property generally encompasses Estate in land, land improvements resulting from human effort including buildings and machinery sited on land, and various property rights over the preceding....
during the twentieth century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places. Sometimes the lands on which company office buildings sit, along with the buildings, are called campuses. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 45,256 at the 2000 United States Census, with an estimated population of 48,739 in 2006....
, as well as hospital

Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
s use the term to describe the territory of their facilities. The word "campus" has also been applied to European universities, although most such institutions are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in urban settings rather than park-like lawns in which buildings are placed.

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