Word: steiner
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...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday it is possible that Harvard will not have to comply with the ruling because the University is largely a private institution...
...past five years the speeches have not met the criteria set by the Committee on Commencement Parts, Henry J. Steiner '51, professor of Law and chairman of the committee, said yesterday. "If none of the speeches are of the quality we are looking for then that particular part of commencement will not take place," he added...
Much of that thesis is sensible enough. The critic George Steiner has argued that "the world of Auschwitz lies outside speech as it lies outside reason." But that elegant despair, which would not desecrate the victims by recording their tales, contradicts the imperative to repeat the facts frequently, from one generation to the next, precisely to keep the victims from the oblivion that the Nazis desired for the entire Jewish race. It pays to be impatient with anyone who says a story is too terrible to be told...
That night, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said that "appropriate action" might be taken against the students who blocked Bok's entry...
Attempts to identify the students involved continued through the week, but Steiner said Thursday that no students had yet been identified...