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of innocence!"
"Why is that, sir?" The stage was cleared now except for the Chairman, whose committee was forming a semicircle behind him, facing the audience.
"We all flunked with the first two students in the Botanical garden, George; we're committed to Knowledge of the Campus, and if there's any hope for us at all, it's in perfecting that knowledge.Ye would be like Founders, the Old Syllabus says,with knowledge of Truth and Falsehood. Very well, then we've got tobe like Founders, even if the things we learn destroy us. . ."
I was not uninterested in this line of reasoning, especially since it was expounded with such uncommon intensity by the usually blasé doctor-whose eyes, however, as he spoke, flashed curiously more like Maurice Stoker's than like any founder's eyes. But now the Committee Chairman chanted the epilogue directly at us, and because of the extraordinary events that followed upon it, I wasn't able to draw my companion out further on his theory of Graduation.
"So take a look at Taliped Decanus,"invited the Chairman:

The hot-shot Answer-man who nearly ran us
on the rocks. We envied Taliped
the old dean's chair and Agenora's bed;