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...believe the custom--long established at Harvard--of electing the captain of the football team for the ensuing year shortly after the close of the current season is unsound and that, viewed over an extended period, has proved unfortunate...
There are numerous reasons why the practice is unsound. Following so quickly on the heels of the final big game, some brilliant performance by an individual assumes an importance outweighing the quality of inspirational leadership. Enthusiasm rather than sober judgment tends to away the vote. The ten months intervening between the election and the start of the next season can readily develop drastic and unforeseeable circumstances. Captains elect have been forced to give up their college careers for varied, personal reasons. Captains elect have flunked out of college. Captains elect have gone on probation and were ineligible to lead their...
...paradox that the Conservative Party, which by definition is opposed to change, to risks of any sort, to anything "unsound," should elect as its leader Winston Churchill, the most daring and, in the word's best sense, most radical leader in the country. This paradox was consummated by a unanimous vote of the Party after the resignation fortnight ago of that composite of conservatism, Neville Chamberlain...
...States, One man has give this military aid to England and no one has made the effort to stop him." Does any sane American really want to stop him? Regardless of the fact that we obtained vital bases in return for those obsolete destroyers, can you really believe it unsound to try to bolster desperate England in the hope--even were it ten times as faint--of keeping war away from an appallingly unprepared America...
Princeton maintained that the present administration has failed to cure unemployment, and has brought instead the twin evils of unsound monetary policy and deficit spending...