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Harry R. Lewis '68, dean of Harvard College and chair of the committee which selects the recipient of the Frothingham, wrote yesterday in an e-mail message, "my request that the terms of the remaining College gender-restricted prizes be reviewed was made in the context of Harvard College assuming responsibility for a number of what had been Radcliffe awards...
Lewis said late last week that the legal terms of the Frothingham were last examined in 1977, when Harvard made most of its prizes open to female applicants...
...number, and almost all, of the previously males-only prizes and scholarships were opened to women. But to do so required a detailed examination by legal authorities of the precise wording of the terms under which the various prizes were established. As I understand it, the terms of the Frothingham could not be changed," Lewis wrote last Saturday...
Neither Lewis nor Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty, would acknowledge last week that the Frothingham was under or needed legal review...
Dunn said Radcliffe does not harbor hard feelings about the Fay Prize's hiatus this year, even though the College still lists the Frothingham--with its "manliness" qualifications--as a Commencement prize...