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When you think of a classic American college campus, you probably envision a set of pastoral images: a demure brick rowhouse crowned with a white steeple, a gargoyle perched on a limestone archway, a domed library on a sunlit grass quadrangle. Often far from cities or shielded from them by gates and walls, campuses exude a sense of refuge. Thomas Jefferson famously wanted the University of Virginia to resemble a kind of ‘‘academical village.’’

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-wont-they.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1 The New York Times