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...crush of immigrants which has lately rushed upon New York and Boston brings to light once more the bad features of the existing quota regulations, plus a new quirk. Secretary of Labor Davis has allowed to land from three to four thousand newly arrived foreigners in excess of the established quota. Although he is apparently within his legal rights. European governments will almost certainly take this as a frank confession that the present law is not living up to the expectations of its framers. This is a sharp break in the prevailing immigration policy, and the first question foreign governments...
Running Broad Jump.--Won by Weinecke (Y), 21 ft., 8 in.; second, Spencer (H), 21 ft., 5. in.; third. Quirk...
Broad Jump.--Broome, F. W. Dorman, D. J. Quirk, Donald Spencer, and J. B. Vevnaglia...
Broad Jump. J. H. Broome, F. W. Dorman, D. J. Quirk, Donald Spencer, J. B. Vernaglia...
...yesterday's events no man placed more than once in the four positions which counted toward the score. D. J. Quirk '26, with a leap of 20 feet 4 1-2 inches, won the broad jump for the Reds, and his team-mate, C. A. C. Eastman '24, placed first in the shotput with a heave of 39 feet 6 inches. For the Whites L. K. Marshall 5E.S. and H. R. Davis '23 won first place in the hammer throw and pole vault respectively. The distance in the former was 139 feet 11 inches, and the height in the latter...