Word: fay
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...with Radcliffe College's merger with Harvard last year, the newly formed Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study transferred responsibility for every Radcliffe award except the Fay Prize to the College. Since then, sorting through the legalities of gender-restricted prizes has been on the College's agenda...
...Crimson reported last Friday that the Fay Prize--what had been Radcliffe College's highest honor for a graduating woman--would not be awarded this year...
...that Radcliffe's undergraduate functions have been merged with those of Harvard, a vigorous effort seems to be underway to eliminate gender bias from formerly Radcliffe-related opportunities. The recent flap over the Fay Prize is only one example; some prizes offered through the Office for the Arts are now no longer limited to women. I am troubled that the Dean's Office is not taking this opportunity to eliminate gender bias from all Harvard-related programs. For instance, the Shaw Fellowship for graduating seniors and the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship are available only to men. Why the effort...
...saddened to read that the Fay prize will not be awarded this year, and that the College is considering that the prize not be restricted by gender in the future. As a resident tutor at Currier House for several years during the 1990s, I remember with great pleasure several winners of the Fay Prize from the house. Their achievement was extraordinary, both academically and in "conduct and character...
Should the College mistakenly change the criteria for the eligibility for the Fay prize, I trust that it will also change all the senior prizes, including the athletic awards, that are restricted to men only. I wait to see how it deals with one specific prize whose criteria I recall includes "manliness...