A Young University in the Old World

A new Spanish institution reveals the potential for European academic reform

In a corner of the courtyard, easily overlooked amid the crowd of students, stands a round glass table, about 12 feet in diameter and less than a foot-and-a-half high. A bar of light projected from within the glass moves around the table like the second hand on a clock, passing continually by the inscriptions on the glass -- almost 120 names of local professors forced out of work, and in most cases out of

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