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...interested rather in large discrepancies than in small ones. Last year an attempt was made to pick out men who should have been doing well, but for some reason were not. But Yale is attempting even to forecast the scholastic average of a freshman, his educational aptitudes, and his likelihood of success after graduation. Yet, to the assistant dean's way of thinking, a definite classification of a man's future possibilities helps neither him nor the college; it may be of scientific interest, but not of practical value...
...Belgians have come to realize that France's next adversary is far more likely to be Italy or Soviet Russia than Germany, that under the present alliance Belgium would be dragged into such a war whether she liked it or not. Even so, few Belgian observers saw much likelihood of M. Vandervelde's proposal succeeding last week. To the average Belgian a war with Italy is a hypothesis for the newspapers, a war with Germany is a continuous personal threat...
...Shoals, Power Commission, Lame Duck Session, Immigration, Farm Problem. Unemployment would be touched on in the Supply bills-extra appropriation to enlarge Federal building of roads, offices, ships, dams, dikes, barracks. But Chairman Bert Snell of the House Rules Committee, one of the Republican Big Three,* was acknowledging the likelihood and trying to soften the impact of Democratic-insurgent opposition when he said last week...
Actually there is little likelihood that the Vatican will ever beatify indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...
House of Commons to "the likelihood that we shall face a General Election before autumn...