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Re:Campuses getting less political as '60s professors retire by davidw on Thursday July 03, 2008 @04:12PM (#235602)
> This goes back further than a hundred years in my reckoning.

Galileo apparently said that some of his best years were those at the University of Padova:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Padua#History

... which, as the article says, had more freedom and less influence from the Catholic church.

However: this strikes me as not really being hacker news.

(PS, check out this guy, who came out of Padova:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin )

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