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Three more students have joined the five day-old fast in protest of Harvard's investments in firms doing business with South Africa and Vice President and General Consul Daniel Steiner '54 has indicated that he is willing to meer with three other students who have gone without food since Monday, fast spokesman Barry S. Zellen '84 said yesterday...
Curiously, this high point is precisely where the question of the teacher's usefulness sometimes turns bitter. A book says something ennobling; a teacher makes that clear. It ought to follow that students are ennobled, but the opposite often occurs. In his essay "Humane Literacy," George Steiner brooded, "We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been taught to read Shakespeare or Goethe, and continued to do so. This compels us to ask whether knowledge of the best that had been thought and said does, as Matthew Arnold asserted, broaden and refine the resources...
Pratap said that the council is considering inviting other Harvard officials to the body's Science Center meetings. He mentioned University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 as an administrator who might soon be asked to discuss Harvard's support to those make students who may lose federal aid because they fail to register for the draft...
...Steiner is the first Harvard official to suggest publicly that the new law may have constitutional flaws. He said yesterday that officials were "looking at a range of questions," but declined further comment...
...Steiner suggested in the letter that the possible problem of a non-registrant's collecting financial aid "does not warrant the elaborate administrative process and the distortion of the relationship between students and their university...