"Despite the manifold difficulties of our times and the current widespread prevalence of the practice, scapegoating will not do," he warned.

He finished by voicing a wish that members of the graduating class would find "the sense and perception of God."

"The Lord can help if only we will let Him." he said. "May the peace and the strength of God go with you, and me, in our new endeavors."

Bunting began her address by praising "the fine working relationship which has existed between Radcliffe and Harvard and between President Pusey and myself through the last 11 years,"

Speaking of the non-merger scheduled to go into effect next year between Radcliffe and Harvard, she said, "I am the last person to play down the significance of a signed contract, but it is not past or future formal agreements that this joint service symbolizes for me so much as an unusually fine day-by-day working relationship."

She then told the seniors that their generation possessed an "unusually strong horizontal cohesiveness," and that the "youth wave" of recent years "has brought profound changes through-out the nation and those changes that are surviving in this University seem, for the most part, to be good ones."

Bunting then addressed the subject of women's liberation. "Perhaps the cohesiveness of today's youth and its interest in stripping away the artificialities of race and sex and class are opposite sides of the same coin," she said.

"A great deal has been said recently about Harvard's discrimination against women. I have said some of it myself and some of it is true, as the absurdly small number of women with Faculty tenure makes evident," she said. "but this community is further ahead than is generally realized in its basic attitudes toward sex."

She cited the success of the co-ed living program of the last two years as evidence that "the new Harvard-Radcliffe relationship should prosper."

"Women's liberation." she said, "has brought increased self-confidence to college women but the danger today is that it may replace one set of stereo-types with another set that is just as confining."

"Career opportunities and supporting roles should be open to both men and women but not on any rigid formula," she said.