Portrait of Melvin Goodnough Pierce, Northeastern University, class of 1925 — As printed in the 1925 yearbook

Northeastern University · Northampton, Massachusetts

Melvin Goodnough Pierce “Mel”

Melvin Goodnough Pierce (“Mel”) was a senior at Northeastern University in Northampton, MA, in 1925. The yearbook prints the name and the portrait; this page adds classmates and a link to the original scan.

Class of 1925

129 in the class of 1925 · 102 more named Pierce

Full name: Melvin Goodnough Pierce
Known as: Mel
School: Northeastern University
Graduated: Class of 1925

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Same surname 82
Classmates 128

In context

Of the 129 names from the Northeastern University class of 1925 that have pages here, Melvin is 84th in surname order. In the scan, Melvin appears on page 64, in the last third of the run of 129 portraits read for this site (pages 36 to 76). Names on this site: 129 for the class of 1925, compared with 88 for 1923. The yearbook calls itself “Cauldron”.

On the same scan page	Abraham A. Poley
The book's own title	Cauldron

What the page does not say. The reading found no birth date, no grammar school, no course for Melvin. Across the Northeastern University class of 1925 the shares are birth date 57%, grammar school 47% and course 40%; worth checking the scan before assuming the book left them out.

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Others named Pierce

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Source

Northeastern University yearbook, 1925, page 64. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cauldron1925nort).

Published 1925, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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