Seven Jewish students are included among the eight winners of New York University law scholarships, and thirty-eight Jews are among the fifty-two law students of the first and second year classes who won honors for scholarship during the past academic year, according to an announcement by Dean Frank H. Sommer, of the New York University School of Law.
The Elliott F. Shepard Prize Scholarship, which gives full tuition for a year in the law school, and is awarded to the student with the highest grading in the final examination of the school year, was received by Eugene Judah Davidson, a second year law student.
Other prize winners include Bernard Axler, Reuben Spitalnik and Beatrice Rosenberg, who each received the University Prize Scholarship; Theodore George Weinberger and Sidney Irving Simon were awarded the first and second University Prize Scholarships, respectively, and Irving Feinberg won the Edward H. Dixon Law Scholarship.
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