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LAST Wednesday night, the Cambridge School Committee took the first step toward insuring that education of the pupils of the Houghton School will not suffer during the two years between the demolition of their old building and the opening of the new one. The Committee approved the construction of temporary classrooms for the children and asked Acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy to find a suitable location for them...
...this vote, the Committee rejected two other proposals--having double sessions for the Houghton pupils at another school, or scattering them in classes throughout the city. Parents and teachers at the Houghton School had opposed these alternatives which, they said, would hamper the education of their children by over-burdening the facilities of Cambridge's other schools...
...Houghton PTA has suggested that the city build the classrooms on Lindstrom Field, where the children could take advantage of the gymnasium, library, and hot lunch program of the nearby Morse School. But so far the Recreation Department has refused to let the School Committee use Lindstrom Field on the grounds that it might interfere with the recreation program there...
...TRIUMPH by John Kenneth Galbraith. 239 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...WHAT END by Ward S. Just. 209 pages. Houghton Mifflin...