Lewis also said the Shaw Travelling Fellowships--previously for men only--will be made available to women next year.
A short article about the Frothingham and its "manliness" criterion appeared in most recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Though the Frothingham was awarded this year, the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize--traditionally Radcliffe's highest honor for a graduating woman--was not awarded, for fear of violating Harvard's non-discrimination policy.
Mary Maples Dunn, acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty, also declined to award the Fay this year so that criteria in keeping with the Institute's missions could be established.
Though Lewis wrote on Monday that the Fay and Frothingham were not comparable prizes, Paul A. Bohlmann, director of fellowships at OCS, said earlier this spring that the only prize similar to the Frothingham was the Fay.
And almost comically, the second sentence in President Neil L. Rudenstine's baccalaureate address yesterday referred to members of this year's class winning both awards.
"You...have already won...the Captain John Fay and Paul Revere Frothingham Prizes," he said.
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