Bunting Stresses Women's Role At 'Cliffe Ceremony

The freedom of today's women from the "mechanism of society" makes them better equipped than men to take "long chances" in research and the academic life, President Bunting said last night at the formal opening of Radcliffe in the First Church of Cambridge.

She compared woman's position today with that of Darwin, who gave up possible careers in medicine and in the ministry for years of introspection into the forming of species. "Women won't perish if they don't publish," she pointed out. "They just won't get a professorship."

Nora Ronhovde '66, president of the Radcliffe Government Association, promoted further coordination between the Harvard and Radcliffe library systems and more cooperation between the RGA and the HUC. Mrs. Hunting had earlier quoted a former Harvard faculty member and Radcliffe trustee as saying, "The closer Radcliffe and Harvard get together, the more attractive both become."