Jewish Students Win Many Honors at Yale

The outstanding prize available to the 1,000 members of the graduating classes at Yale University—the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize of $500 was awarded at the graduation exercises yesterday to a Jewish student, Eugene V. Rostow, of New Haven, a senior in Yale College. Announcement of the award was made by Dr. James Rowland Angell, president of the University in Woolsey Hall before some 3,000 people. This prize is annually awarded to a student who “through the combination of intellectual achievement, fine character, and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship.” Rostow is generally considered the most brilliant man in the senior class. He was recently awarded a Henry Fellowship which will provide for post-graduate study at Cambridge University, England.

Rostow was one of the three students, all of whom are Jewish, to be graduated “with special distinction”; the other two are Samuel Block and Saul Padowitz.

Of the twenty students who graduated with special honors, five were Jewish; the ten percent of Jewish students in the senior class contributed twenty-five percent of the number carrying off special honors. The Jewish students in this group are Robert Burstein who was graduated with special honor in French; Sol Morton Isaac, Government; Sheldon Zachary Kaplan, German; Herbert Mandelbaum, Philosophy; and Richard Siegel, Latin.

In addition to these students the following received “high oration appointments” indicative of their high scholastic rating in the senior class, at the graduation exercises: Abraham Cohen, Manuel Goldstein, Marvin Gold. Jerome Hartz, Richard Levy, Samuel Mermin, Saul Padowitz, Eliot Rodnick, Morris Rubin. The following received “oration appointment”: Bernard David, Leon Feinberg, Irwin Golden, David Goldman, Sidney Goldstein, Solomon Isaac, Philip Levine, Samuel Moses, Laurence Rosenthal and Reuben Waterman.

Elections to Phi Beta Kappa from the senior class included the names of Marvin Gold, Richard Levy and Morris Rubin.

At the University Commencement exercises, the degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, will be conferred on Norman Adler, of New York City; Abe Fortas of Memphis, Tenn., and Milton Rosenberg, of New York City. These three were also elected to the Order of the Coif, the national legal honor society for Honor Students in Law. Irving Friedman, of New York City, will receive the degree of Doctor of Medicine cum laude, and he has been awarded the Campbell Gold Medal, given to the member of the graduating class in medicine achieving the highest rank in examinations. The Keese Prize, awarded in the School of Medicine for the most meritorious thesis at graduation has been given to Jacob Greenberg, of Passaic, N. J., Both Friedman and Greenberg are graduates of the College of the City of New York.