Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With practically every brick, room and building on campus named for a benefactor, it's hard to tell who really gave the big bucks. While Sir Matthew Holworthy had a prominent building named in his honor for a measly 1,000 English pounds in 1678, these days a mere self-titled professor chair takes a $3.5 million donation. Even that though, seems a trifle compared to the chunk of change John L. Loeb '24, LLD `71 (Hon.) and Frances "Peter" Lehman Loeb handed over in a lump sum in 1994: a whopping $70.5 million...
...ever to higher education. The contribution made its mark on the Harvard community, granting funding for undergraduate financial aid as well as endowing six professorships. Both 17 Quincy St--formerly the residence of the University president--and the campus drama center on Brattle Street were renamed in the Loebs' honor. Where did all the Loebs' money come from? After graduation John Loeb co-founded the apparently successful New York banking and brokerage firm, Loeb, Rhoades and Company...
...Harvard Crimson would like to honor senior forward Rob Millar of the men's hockey team with the athlete of the week award...
Randolph said that another memorial service will be held in Manley's honor "when the weather gets warmer...
...fairy tales," eschewing thepost-World War II idea that fanciful poetry is nolonger appropriate, associating fairy tales forthe dead with "a handful of herbs," "needles byrustling / and the faint threads of fragrances":concrete instances of the sleepy and fantastic innature that persists in spite of human history.Herbert would honor the dead with his vision, or"our Ardennes forest," the line which closes thepoem...