Campuses are places.

The idea of a campus, and its nature, is central to what a university is. “In a letter Charles C. Beatty 1775 wrote to his brother-in-law Enoch Green 1760 on January 31, 1774: “Last week to show our patriotism, we gathered all the steward’s winter store of tea, and having made a fire in the Campus, we there burnt near a dozen pounds, tolled the bell and made many spirited resolves.” John Witherspoon, a Presbyterian minister, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Princeton President was there. The event helped establish a place. The periphery of what makes a campus important — the classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, performance venues, playing fields — is focused around an idea. That idea must have expression in a place.

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