This. All of the schools mentioned most often in this thread were chartered during a period when it was difficult to imagine knowing more than a couple hundred people well enough to want to live with them for four years. People in the 19th century could not imagine lining up to be searched by TSA agents, waiting for hours in subterranean cities for a packed, jet-propelled tin can aimed at a faraway place. That was the stuff of Jules Verne and frankly just a tad dystopian. And yet, today, we all accept it as our baseline existence on so many levels.
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