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...E.S.F. "because that's what your initials will be because you're going to marry me.'' They live in a ten-room brick house in an upper-middle-class section of Queens, where they settled ten years ago, because, as Estelle explains, "It was the nicest neighborhood closest to Brooklyn." Social life consists of visiting the family back in Brooklyn, or having perhaps one other couple to dinner. Their circle of friends is small; the Ferkaufs are ungregarious by nature, never entertain anyone from the company in their home, and have never had a party...
...varsity win over the Elis, traditionally the nicest of things, is a stronger bet and even a probability if the varsity plays the kind of lacrosse it is capable of playing. Yale looked good early in the season, but recent losses to Cornell (a varsity victim) and Syracuse give Coach Bruce Munro's squad a definite edge in tomorrow's contest...
...sure,' said the child patiently, 'for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see,' he went on, "It's very much like trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where--but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking...
Dean Monro called Harvard's participation in the project "one of the nicest things that has happened to us in years. The 'comprehensive' idea is an essential part of democracy," he added, pointing out that such a system eliminates "elites" and the "tremendous strain of having to prove yourself at age eleven...
...Nicest of all is the generous helping of old favorites like "Georgia Brown," "Stormy Weather" or "Poor Wayfaring Stranger." In songs like these, the 16 pleasant voices of the group are confident, controlled, quite professional, and ever so much better than the ragged Whiffenpoofs...