Frank Palmer Speare
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Frank Palmer Speare (1869 – May 28, 1954) was the first president of Northeastern University, serving from 1898 to 1940. He began the evening program at the Boston YMCA that later became Northeastern. As founding president, he oversaw the launching of the university's evening law school, the now-defunct automobile school, the evening polytechnic schools, the school of commerce and finance, and the co-operative engineering school.
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Frank Palmer Speare
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Frank Palmer Speare
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Frank Palmer Speare
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1954-05-28
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1869-03-31
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Bridgewater State Teachers College, 1889
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1869-03-31
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Speare pictured in The Cauldron 1921, Northeastern yearbook
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Marjory Vinton Speare
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Charles Speare, Jeanette Palmer
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May Cushing Whiting, Katherine Vinton
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1940
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1898
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President of Northeastern University
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Frank Palmer Speare (1869 – May 28, 1954) was the first president of Northeastern University, serving from 1898 to 1940. He began the evening program at the Boston YMCA that later became Northeastern. As founding president, he oversaw the launching of the university's 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 addition to being an educator, he was also a sailor, farmer, and music enthusiast. He composed songs ("Silver Bay, a Song of Vacation Days") and other music (the "Northeastern March"), plays (Mystic Waters, or The Spirit of Winnipesaukee), and musicals.
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