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...Roger Price, illustrated by Mamoru Funai (Harper & Row; $3.50). A modern Just So Story about a little dragon with "a long spiked tail and 212 teeth" who, alas, couldn't breathe fire so the old sea turtle fixed that with some hot peppers, coal and oil, but then Algon burnt up everything around the house, so once again the old sea turtle, etc., etc., and that, oh best beloved, is how the first alligator was born...
Immediately, the two-man faculty and the six students (two of whom were full-blooded Algon-quin Indians) set to work on a Constitution of Conduct, which has stood virtually without change for 233 years. This constitution, or "Open Letter." which binds both students and faculty, generally defines what members of the university may and may not do, and sets forth the ideals of academic freedom toward which Open has long aspired...
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