Word: loeb
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Hell on a Platter, a wacky, romantic comedy written by Margaret Roberts, plays at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...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...
...According to Andy K. Tiedemann at the Harvard Development Office, the Loeb gift stands as the single largest ever in Harvard history from a living donor and, at its time, ranked among the top ten gifts 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...
...Loeb Experimental Theater...
...encouraged to continue selecting and enabling undergraduate-written productions: especially those productions that involve new people in the theater community and that excite the audience. And I have rarely seen an audience at Harvard respond so favorably to an undergraduate production as to The Jerusalem Disease, produced in the Loeb Experimental Theater during reading period. Harvard actors don't often come out for a second curtain call, even for brilliant acting and a stellar script...