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...engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental and emotional proceedings in his characters, distort ed by their depth into shapes of beauty or ugliness, magnified or diminished with varying degrees of intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest...
Integration, the end toward which the economic world is drifting, is geographically desirable in the University. That Harvard should lose itself in the flotsam and jetsam of commercial Cambridge would be a misfortune, although not an educational calamity. Some time ago, a plan was formulated to provide for the growth of the University, a plan to preserve as a physical entity the strip of territory between the business school domain on the Charles River and the graduate dominions beyond Memorial Hall...
Then Flotsam and Jetsam (The University of Pennsylvania) : "The inheritors of this museum of styles are now trying to impose some sort of unity upon it. . . . What does this confusion, this lack of any sound instinct imply in the education here offered...