Word: unlikelihood
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...instance, of course it is college men to whom it must be laid, and even if it is not quite certain that they are to blame it makes such a very spicy article for a paper. Is it not a proof on the face of it, of its unlikelihood, that such an item is copied all over the country? People think it is strange - it is surprising - no doubt it is, but does any of them think that its strangeness bears, maybe, some witness to its unlikelihood, that the astonishment which they feel at reading it is perhaps a proof...
...will be found in our Sporting Column this week. It might be urged that there is the same objection to this disposition of the medal as to the other, but the objection exists in so modified a degree, owing to the superiority of the Intercollegiate records, and the consequent unlikelihood of more than one being broken, that the idea seems worth the careful consideration, at east, of the Athletic Association...