Word: interregnum
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...chair of scholastic philosophy, which has been brilliantly filled in the past by Maurice de Wulf and by Etienne Gilson, is now in its third year of interregnum. The intellectual history of the middle ages, Professor Taylor's History 6, and their political theory, Professor McIlwain's Government 6, form parts of the mediaeval picture which are of necessity incomplete without a systematic study of the mediaeval view of man and the universe. With the growing interest in mediaeval studies at Harvard and elsewhere, it is particularly unfortunate that this chair has been allowed to lapse...
...news it is good. It takes up the story begun by Mr. Lindley in his campaign biography of Roosevelt. A balanced readable account of the campaign moves naturally into the exciting story of the "Interregnum" and the "Crisis." Then the wave of public opinion for inflation, the London conference, the N. R. A. the "Official Family," and the inevitable "Brains Trust" get their chapters. Each is handled with a careful accuracy in detail and mild enthusiasm which shows the Rhodes Scholar Lindley inhibiting the feature writer Lindley...
...school of that influence. It would be all too easy to enumerate the qualities which his successor should have, all too difficult to discover them in any one man. It is sufficient to point out that although the resignation of Doctor Stearns has cleared the way from an interregnum to a new regime, it has also placed Andover at a critical point in her career. It will be difficult to discover a man of equal caliber; and to fall in that search will be dangerous...
Princeton's Interregnum...
...thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author Browne. "The extravagance of his belief in the innate wickedness of mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered from some psychic maladjustment. Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother. . . ." The period of troublous...