Word: interregnum
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...oldest of the 23 and, with a 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, the most distinguished from within the Harvard community, Purcell must be considered the Corporation's "Pope John" on the list. Because of the 66-year-old mandatory requirement age, he would be an interregnum president if chosen; both academically and politically, he is highly respected by the entire spectrum of the Faculty and most students who have taken his course...