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...only comparative scores there are augur an overwhelming victory for the Crimson. Andover, which had previously muzzled the little Bulldogs, was trampled, 18 to 30, by the Yardlings...
Association members adopted modified Rugby rules, calling for a field 140 yards long and 70 yards wide. The first contest against the Tiger was played in Cambridge and seemed to augur well for the Crimson under these new regulations. Harvard won the first game on April 28, 1877. But Princeton quickly recovered the defeat in the November 7 contest at Hoboken that same year. Not until the home game in 1887 did Harvard win another victory...
...Korea can be made a sound political and economic unit. There is every need for the U.S. to stay and succeed. Withdrawal would leave not only a shattered economy and a broken nation, but a broken moral obligation as well. Failure in Korea would cost America priceless prestige, and augur American failure elsewhere in Asia...
...tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...
...queue up for forth-coming productions of "Julius Caesar," due in a fortnight, and "Arms and the Man" expected early next month. Also on the schedule are Sheridan's "The Rivals," O'Neils's "Anna Christie," Ibsen's "A Doll House" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth," all of which augur a season of no small magnitude...