Even though the spring semester just ended, summer classes are underway, as is registration for the fall semester! So while students are home recovering from the work of the semester, they are also gearing up for what the fall has in store, and preparing for their classes set to begin in three months.

Ever wonder what kind of classes students were taking way back when the school was founded in 1919 (almost 100 years ago!)? At the time, when we were still a division of Northeastern University, we granted degrees in Law, Commerce and Finance, and Engineering, and even offered special courses in advertising, foremanship, public speaking, and salesmanship. Below are pages from the 1921-1922 Law, and 1922-1923 Commerce and Finance course catalogs for Northeastern University Springfield Division.

We’d love to sit in on some of these classes to see how much has changed, not only in the topics and theories covered, but how the classes themselves were taught. But we’re sure, at the very least, that the rigor and expectations of students was as high then as it is today. Because, as the cover of the 1921 course catalog reads, the school was “An Evening School with Day-School Standards.”