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...indoor handicap meeting of the Boston Athletic Association on Wednesday evening, O. W. Shead '93 broke the club record for the standing broad jump and the running high kick. The record for the broad jump was 9 feet 7 3-8 inches; Shead jumped 9 feet 11 3-4 inches. The event went to S. A. Coombs B. A. A. who had a handicap of 1 foot and a jump of 9 feet 4 1-2 in. E. B. Bloss '94 (handicap 1 foot) took second place with a jump of 9 feet...
...running high kick there was a tie for second place between H. G. Moffitt and Shead. Moffitt won the toss and Shead took third place. Both men broke the old record of 8 feet 6 inches by kicking 8 feet 7 3-4 inches...
Best general references: Congressional Record, vol. X, part 1; vol. XXI, appendix, pp. 22-25; House Journal, Fifty First Congress, 1st Session; Copy of the rules, (pamphlet); North American Review, vol. 150; Nation, Feb. 6, 13, and 20, 1890; Public Opinion, VIII; Feb. 8, 1890; Story's Commentaries, II, 299; Lalor's Cyclopaedia, IV, 88; Bryce's American Commonwealth, I, 129-132; Smith's Const'l Manual...
...rules place the control of the House almost exclusively in the hands of one man; McMillin in Cong. Record, vol. 2, App. p. 25; - (a) They injure Congress as a deliberative body; - (b) They enable the speaker to declare bill passed when the rolls show the contrary; Nation, Feb. 13, p. 124; - (c) They make it possible to "railroad" bills through Congress...
...records in the high kick and rope-climbing were broken in the M. I. T. meeting on Saturday. The new record in the first event is 9 ft. 3 1-2 inches...