Word: loeb
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Alumni gifts have allowed establishment of many of these series. One of the oldest, and the largest, is the Loeb Classical Library, a 400-volume presentation of Greek and Latin works with the original text on the lefthand page and the translation on the right. Supported by a $300,000 endowment, it is the bequest of James C. Loeb '88, a bachelor banker who after his retirement in 1901 lived in a Bavarian castle surrounded by books...
...production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened at the Loeb last night is a crude attempt at a play unequaled in ripeness of language and plain good heart in Shakespeare or English. The show is as disasterous as misdirection can make it, which is to say that it is still a fair evening's entertainment...
They do, of course, in a concrete sense. Harvard is here, population changed but not very much diminished, business as usual in the Union and Lamont, "winter" students occupying their Eliot House suites, plays on the Loeb mainstage, presses running at the CRIMSON. But they see Harvard as one who stops at Churchill Downs in December and then says he has seen the Kentucky Derby...
Until now cooperation between the Houses has been loose and "informal" she said. No one keeps track of production expenses, and technical facilities, which are inferior to those of the Loeb, are badly organized. Last year, she said, costumes were thrown away, flat disappeared and someone walked off with all the lights of Dunster House...
...problem of picking sides, however, has not been solved, and the first two acts languish a bit because of it. Arden says in the introduction to the play, which is excerpted on the Loeb poster, that he is a timid man and that the play advocated complete pacifism timidly. The vacillation is within the play as a whole, in the dealings between characters and not neatly bottled in any one of them...