Word: strause
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the fall season of Straus Cup competition now completed, Quincy House holds a slim lead over Winthrop and defending champion Kirkland. Quincy has amassed 451 points, with three of the seven fall championships to its credit. Winthrop, also with three team titles, follows with 434, and Kirkland rounds out the top three...
...Quincy should retain its lead at the end of the year, it would mark Q-World's first Straus Cup ever. Kirkland is looking to take home the cup for a record 18th time. Eliot and Winthrop are tied for second in overall Straus championships, having each carried off seven intramural trophies since the competition began in 1935. When Kirkland topped Winthrop in the final standings last year, it broke a four-year winning streak for the Thropsters...
...PHILIP ROTH READER Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 483 pages...
...eight, you should win the Straus Cup. Four through six means you'll probably flunk that Gov 20 midterm, since your biorhythms are at an all-time low. Less than four? You must be a freshman...
Quincy House, whose juggernaut ground to a halt when it met SoHo for last year's championship, has most of its starters returning, as does Kirkland, which won last year's Straus Cup but lost the only title that really matters...