Boston's Chamber of Commerce indirectly applauded the University's contribution to the community yesterday. The Business Associates Club announced "awards of merit" to ten young men for adding substantially "to the good name of Boston"

Six of the ten are graduates of the University: Representative John F. Kennedy '40 (Dem.-Mass.); conductor Leonard Bernstein '39; Dr. Francis D. Moore '35, Moseley Professor of Surgery at the Medical School; James L. Madden '31, president of Hollingsworth and Whitney Company; Luther A. Breck, Jr. '34, president of Joseph Breck and Sons Corp.; and Edward B. Hanify, 1938 Law School graduate and general chairman of the 1950 Boston Community Fund compaign.

The awards will be presented at a dinner tomorrow night.

The other winners are: Al Capp, "Li'l Abner" creator, and businessmen William E. Barbour, John L. Gillis, and Richard S. Morse.