The first word was adopted to describe a particular urban space at the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) during the first decades of the eighteenth century. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields in their own institutions, but "campus" not yet describe the entire university property. A school can have a space called a campus, a call from a field, and another called a yard. The significance expanded to include all property institutional during the twentieth century, with the old meaning persists in the 1950 in some places. Sometimes, the land on which company buildings sit together with the buildings, are called campuses. Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, as well as hospitals use the term to describe the territory of their premises. The word "campus" has also been applied to European universities, although most of these institutions are characterized by the property of individual buildings, rather than urban parks, lawns and in buildings that are placed.
