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...College will award the Paul Revere Frothingham prize to a graduating senior this year despite its selection criteria of "manliness," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 confirmed this week...
...agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe College, most prizes formerly designated exclusively for men or women became open to both sexes. In some cases, however, where a donor's intent had been to honor specifically a man or a woman, the sex prerequisite prevailed. Such was the case of the Frothingham Award, for which one of the selection criteria is "manliness." Now the Frothingham Award is also under review, as Harvard attorneys determine whether it is possible to award the prize to women as well...
...rule, undergraduate prizes should be open to both men and women without bias. However, there is a clear imbalance between the number of prizes available solely to women and men. The Frothingham is just one example of a prize open only to men; in addition, there are a number of departmental awards and University-wide prizes exclusively given to male undergraduates, including the Shaw Fellowship, the Barbara Miller Solomon Prize, the William J. Bingham Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Korean War Memorial Prize and the John P. Reardon Prize. Some male-only prizes have a female equivalent; others...
...University (and the Institute as a part of the University) is legally beholden to its prize donors to preserve the conditions attached to a prize--thus the reason why the Frothingham might remain for men only. However, the stark gender imbalance among the prizes should encourage the University to reexamine the original language of prize criteria and do as much as it can within the letter of its obligations to donors to open prizes to both men and women. Where this is not possible and where a prize must remain single-sex for reasons beyond the University's control...
...very least, this justification for the Fay Prize's single-sex status is no more tenuous than the justification for maintaining the Frothingham's prize criteria of "manliness." In fact, by targeting the Fay Prize before deciding to reconsider the Frothingham, the administration revealed an intent colored more by institutional rivalry than gender equality. The Crimson staff's intent, to eliminate sexism everywhere, is more noble, but in this case is clearly misguided...