Education, Cooperative -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Office of the President (Freeland) records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [39358015470575]
Identifier: Z01-027
Dates:
ca. 1996-1999
Office of the President (Freeland) records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z98-016
Dates:
1997-1998
Office of the President (Speare) records
Collection
Identifier: A001
Overview
Frank Palmer Speare (FPS) was named the Educational Director of the Evening Institute of the Boston YMCA in 1896. He transformed the loosely organized school into an institute for higher learning that eventually became Northeastern University (NU). He oversaw the launching of several of NU's early schools: the evening law school, the now-defunct automobile school, the evening polytechnic schools, the school of commerce and finance, and the co-operative engineering school. In 1916 the Evening...
Dates:
1896-1951