Word: usurps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee would be avoided, and ceneralization of control would be made doubly certain. The hours for all scheduled meetings and games could be entered in a book which would be placed in some conveniently located spot, always open to consultation. Naturally, the student "bookkeeper" would in no way usurp the position of the present authorities. He would have no powers of consenting or refusing to allow meetings to take place on certain dates; his duties would include only the careful listing of future events, in order that managers might avoid conflicting dates which so often prove mutually disadvantageous...
...University fable that the girl of the Junior Dance is the Senior fiancee meets unusual circumstances tonight. Realizing that 1920 is leap year we are lost in conjecture, wondering how the delicate feminine intuition will avail itself of this opportunity to usurp the masculine prerogative. In the lilt of a Strauss waltz or the sensuous rythm of a fox trot the Harvard undergraduate loses that abstraction which is so noticeable in the lecture hall. He will be engulfed, a little by the soft eyes and wavy tresses of some maid, and Harvard indifference will give way to a flush...