... to focus on the amount of money students have, or did have, and if the recent development of student loans has vastly changed the pattern of student life at Lancaster. There are numerous types of recent and historical evidence that I could obtain, in answering the proposed question. It would be interesting to look at the number of students at the university, and how this has changed over the years. I could obtain this kind of information by perhaps asking the administration staff at University House, or looking in the university archives. I could then, assuming that more people attend the University now, than in the 1970's look at the rate of acceleration of the number of students over the years by producing a time series. This kind of quantitative evidence would be indirect and intentional, as quite clearly the numerical data would have been kept and recorded deliberately, for later ...

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