Word: strause
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winner of the loop title will get a 150-point boost towards the coveted Straus trophy now held by Leverett House and also a crack at the winner of the Yale intercollegiate competition come November. All other Houses in the league will play Eli colleges also, being paired off with a team having the same standing in the New Haven loop...
...days of general conditioning before the candidates are divided into individual House teams. Nine squads, seven from the Houses, one from Dudley, and one culled from the upperclassmen in the Yard, will compete for the grid title now held by Kirkland House and the 150 point handicap toward the Straus Trophy...
...PLEASURES OF PEACOCK (458 pp.) -Edited by Ben Ray Redman-Farrar Straus...
...Practically every year there is a contribution of a thousand dollars from young Nathan Straus, the genesis of which goes back to Charles F. Murphy's day. There was a vacancy in the Court of Appeals. Before filling it, many things had to be discussed. Mr. Murphy and I were sitting alone one night, going over names, for no one had been decided upon. Mr. Murphy was told that Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus had come to see him. When Mrs. Straus, who was a dear old lady, saw Mr. Murphy, she looked up at him in her most...
...Murphy told me later that the first check he received each year was one for a thousand dollars from Nathan Straus. . . . Since the death of the old people young Nathan Straus has continued his parents' traditional contribution...