Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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A Message From Our President When you came to Northeastern, the University was entering its second half century of service, but its outward appearance must have made it seem young to you. You have seen the trim, modern lines of the new buildings rise on the campus — buildings which represented twenty years of effort to match in physical surroundings the excellence already achieved by the academic programs of the University over several decades of development. The recent growth of North eastern is similar to what has taken place in your own lives during the past five years. You have matured in knowledge and understanding, and, more important, you have been prepared for continued growth. You have had the privilege, through your co-operative work, of demonstrating that you can be workers at school as well as students at work. Some of you will continue with your co-operating employers after graduation; others will accept promising positions elsewhere. Your future will depend on growth, especially on your recepliveness to new ideas. The University has sought to help you develop inquiring minds because inquiring minds are essential to growth. You have al- ready gained a certain amount of self-reliance, which is really the sun- light of growth and progress. The climate of freedom will surround you. Because you live in America your careers will not be hindered or limited by social stratification or governmental interference. You will be free to develop in accordance with your knowledge, your ability, and your char- acter. Growth is no brief ideal. It is a long-term, on-going process. Only by constant growth can the human race achieve a better world; therefore, it behooves us all to strive, to seek, and to find ways of improving ourselves and our civilization. May you never cease to grow.

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CARL STEPHENS ELL A.B.. M.S., ED.M.. SC.D., L.L.D., L.H.D. PRESIDENT OF NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

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3n J-Hemoriam FRANK PALMER SPEARE Frank Palmer Speare, founder and past president of Northeastern, and pioneer in the field of co-opera- tive education, died May 24, 1954. The distinguished educator, who retired from active direction of the University in 1940, hnilt in 43 years the nation ' s eighth largest engineer- ing school from an adult education day school with an enrollment of eight persons. He founded Northeastern in 1898 with a school of law in the Hunting- ton Avenue Y.M.C.A. Dr. Speare then added through the years, schools of commerce and finance, en- gineering, business administration and liberal arts, enlarging the insti- tution to a university in the true sense of the word. Twice president of the Massa- chusetts School Masters Club, he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Chandler School and was a member of the Harvard Teachers Association, the University Club and the Mayflower Society. A graduate of Bridgewaler State Teachers College. Dr. Speare served as headmaster at Avon High School before establishing the Boston Y.M.C.A. educational department. Two years later he began the ground- work which was ullimately to result in the creation of Northeastern Uni- versity. He held honorary degrees from Harvard and the University of New Hampshire, as well as from North- eastern. JAMES LORIN RICHARDS James Lorin Richards, 96, one of New England ' s leading industrialists and long a friend of Northeastern, both as a benefactor and through his service as a trustee of the University, died January 2 at his Newtonville home. Mr. Richards, for whom Rich- ards Hall was named in 1938, was re- puted lobe oneof the nation ' s wealth- iest men, and at one time was a director of more than 50 of the coun- try ' s corporations. In 1951 he established at North- eastern the Cora E. (Towne) Richards scholarship in memory of his late wife. Awards are made an- nually from this fund to women of merit and ability. Mr. Richards had continued ac- tive in business until last September, reporting to his both offices every day. He made weekly train trips to New York until his 95th birthday as an executive committee member and director of the American Sugar and Refining Company. His biography was written for Northeastern by William T. Cloney, former associate professor of English. It was written so that it might serve as an inspiration to generations of Nor theas tern students. { 10 }