Word: interregnum
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...after the full flush of victory some one must reckon up the bill, for, in sober deliberation, events once rosy take on the stark grimness of reality. True, dangers of the paths are now abolished, but at the sacrifice of an undergraduate prerogative which except for the heart-rending interregnum of the Lowell regime has lasted since Lallement got his patent in 1866. In the wink of an eye a tradition of three-quarters of a century is brought crashing to the ground...
When, as it must to all men, Death comes to the eleventh Pius in the Vatican, an interregnum will ensue before the College of Cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to mark ballot after ballot in electing the 262nd Pope. Before 1922 that interregnum amounted to only ten days- a fact which highly vexed Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who arrived in the Vatican too late to help choose Pius XI. One of the new Pope's first official acts was to extend the period to 18 days. Thus before the next conclave there should...
Head of the Roman Catholic Church during the 18-day interregnum is the Cardinal Camerlengo. who sits during the conclave under a baldachin with the head Cardinal Bishop, Cardinal Priest and Cardinal Deacon, the four being reverenced with a genuflection as if they were one Pope. Entrusted with what remained of the old office of Minister of the Interior & Finance in the Papal States, the Cardinal Camerlengo came, during his brief rule, to appropriate some of the powers of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Modern pontiffs have united the two offices, and for many years, until his death last November...
...alarmed over the future of his handiwork and his name as No. 1 branch banker of the U. S., emerged in an historic proxy battle to regain control (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week Transamerica published its annual report for the first full year of Giannini management since the interregnum. Profits were up from $7,900,000 to $11,300,000 or 48? for each of 23,000,000 shares outstanding. Bank loans had been shaved from $10,950,000 to $4,800.000. Expenses had been pared and dividends resumed. Enormous blocks of industrial stocks including 80,000 shares...
...explanation that economy and the choice of a suitable man have caused the present interregnum is a good explanation, but time has a way of shaping explanations into policies. It is true that the number of laymen who are worthy exponents of the scholastic philosophy is small, and it is true that a time of budgetary contraction does not stimulate new appointments. The Philosophy Department has made a temporary adjustment to the situation; Philosophy A, its introductory course, compensates for its omission of scholasticism in the lectures and reading by making Professor De Wulf's book on mediaeval philosophy...