The Cambridge School Department recently offered two buildings for the site of the first junior college proposed under the auspices of Governor Furcolo's new Regional College committee.
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and chairman of the committee, said yesterday that his group would give the proposal "serious consideration." Although the Cambridge bid is the only specific offer from a local school board, Harris added that "pressures have also been exerted to locate the college in other parts of the state."
The state legislature has granted the Regional College committee only $1 million, pointed out Edward T. Sullivan, chairman of the Cambridge school board's subcommittee on junior colleges. With so limited a budget, he continued, the committee should make use of existing facilities such as those Cambridge is offering.
Another advantage which Cambridge offers, Sullivan said, is the easily tapped supply of top grade instructors among the graduate students and teaching fellows at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In addition, Sullivan remarked that the two buildings offered by Cambridge--the Wellington and Kelley schools--are both within five minutes' walk from the nearest MTA station. Since most of the students at the junior college will come from "economically underprivileged groups," he explained, availability of public transportation will be an important factor in choosing a site.
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