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Serious questions remain about how the two colleges, and their different perspectives, will be best integrated. One noticeable casualty in the shuffle of reorganization is this year's Captain Jonathan Fay prize. Traditionally given to an outstanding female in the graduating class, the prize was not awarded this year because it may be in violation of the University's nondiscrimination policies, since the award winner as currently selected must be a woman. However, despite a similar legal review, the College will be giving the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship and similar prizes which list among the characteristics "manliness" and are given...
Last Wednesday, the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association's Strawberry Tea was held in Radcliffe Yard for men and women of the senior class--the first time men have been invited to the event. The tea, the time when the Fay Prize had traditionally been awarded, and its setting, among the buildings that until October had been dedicated to the education of undergraduate women, together mark a transition, bittersweet but full of opportunity. There is a place for men at the Tea--as well as in the campus women's organizations and on the Ann Radcliffe Trust--and perhaps receiving...
...years past, the awarding of the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, what had been Radcliffe's highest honor for a graduating woman, formed the focal point of the event...
...think that they should have given the Fay prize this year. With the [Frothingham] if feels like a double standard," said Tea attendee Gisela I. Mohring...
When incoming dean Drew Gilpin Faust was informed that the Frothingham would be given this year while Radcliffe College's tradional Fay Prize would not be awarded, she said that she was "bewildered...