Education: A Little Momentum

In Boston's Symphony Hall last week, President Karl T. Compton paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)— the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum."

In August, Jules Levin, B.S. in general engineering, will start work at Long Island's Brookhaven National...

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