Word: interregnum
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With all Oxford "down" for the Long Vac, it is customary for old men and fawning boys, bespectacled spinsters and enquiring teachers to desecrate the hallowed precincts of the University with their well-meaning, but incongruous, presence. Many matters are decided during this terrible interregnum, all of which, fortunately, are of little consequence to those who adore old Oxenford as their Alma Mater...
...Stratton succeeds Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts...
...duck" government is a venerable institution of long years' standing--that uncomfortable period in the administration when, in spite of the fact that both the new Congress and the new President, have been elected, the old officers still control the national affairs. The period is, in other words, the interregnum when the defeated President is still the chief executive. Someone noticed the futility of this system and the Norris Resolution came into being. It provides that the members of the new Congress shall assemble in December immediately following their election, rather than wait thirteen months as under the present method...
...union, for it permitted traitors in the government to use the government's resources to build up the strength of the secessionists. In 1916, if Mr. Hughes had won, we should have had a very serious situation, with our policy as to Germany suspended for four months. The present interregnum is both costly and dangerous, unavoidably confusing and retarding action when it should be definite and energetic...
...fact, this useless interregnum will be costly and dangerous whenever it occurs in troublous and critical times. In normal times we may overlook the waste it involves; but it becomes a matter of first rate moment in such times as this. We ought to take advantage of the present demonstration of its unpleasant possibilities to end it. Congress should submit an amendment to the states without unnecessary delay. Chicago Tribune