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 Laboratory, researching in atomic energy. But meantime, Jules thought, he might go climb a mountain to relax.

Other news of graduations last week: P: At New York University, imminent rain caused a speechless outdoor commencement. Said Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "I had prepared an eloquent address. There is thunder in the distance. It will be printed and mailed to you." P: At the first commencement of Vermont's new Marlboro College (TIME, Sept. 8), there were four commencement speakers and only one graduate. P: At Missouri's Rockhurst College (Kansas City), a bus driver and a union business agent received the first U.S. bachelor's degrees in labor relations.

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