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What is the meaning of campus and grand old estate in the following text?
Whitefield was the state's only psychiatric hospital, and it was an expansive collection of buildings spread over thousands acres. It was called a campus, looked more like a grand old estate, and was surrounded by fields, woods, and forests.
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a campus is a N. American term for the land that a university is situated on, including the buidings. They acll this psychiatric hospital a campus because it is a more pleasant term a grand old estate This refers to a large and beautiful family house, surrounded by lots of private land.
- a campus is a N.
- American term for the land that a university is situated on, including the buidings.
- They acll this psychiatric hospital a campus because it is a more pleasant term a grand old estate This refers to a large and beautiful family house, surrounded by lots of private land.
- It's where generations of rich people lived when they weren't in the city.
- Today, the term and the life-style are almost obsolete.
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a campus is a N. American term for the land that a university is situated on, including the buidings. . They acll this psychiatric hospital a campus because it is a more pleasant term
a grand old estate This refers to a large and beautiful family house, surrounded by lots of private land. It's where generations of rich people lived when they weren't in the city. Today, the
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