120 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



Messrs. John H. Sears and John Robinson of Salem, Mr. 

 F. A. Ober and Hon. J. I. Baker of Beverly, Hon. N. A. 

 Horton and Dr. G. A. Perkins of Salem. A fnll report of 

 this meeting has been printed in the Bulletin of the Insti- 

 tute (see Vol. XX, pages 1 to 35). 



The iJdrd field meeting gathered on Friday, Sept. 

 16, 1887, at the Bradford Academy, by invitation of Dr. 

 George Cogswell, the President of its Board of Trustees. 

 This was largely attended, lunch being served in a beau- 

 tiful grove on the Academy grounds, and the afternoon 

 session being held in the large hall of the Academy, at 

 2.30 o'clock, the President in the chair. Vice President 

 Rantoul spoke of the early lyceums of the county, fol- 

 lowed by Dr. George Cogswell, Dr. William Cogswell, 

 J. N. Carlton, all of Bradford, Vice President A. C. 

 Goodell,jr.,Gen. William Cogswell, M. C.,G. D. Phip- 

 pen, Hon. N. A. Horton and Mr. John Sears of Salem, 

 who made interesting reniiirks on the special subjects in 

 which the individual speakers were interested. An ex- 

 tended report of this meeting has been printed in the Bul- 

 letin of the Institute (see Vol. xx, pp. 36 to 44). 



Meetings. Regular meetings were held on the first 

 and third Monday evenings of each month. At these, the 

 following communications were made and lectures deliv- 

 ered : 



Rev. D. P. Noyes of South Byfield read a paper enti- 

 tled "The Fathers of our Forefiithers." He traced the 

 rise and progress of the Puritan spirit in England from 

 the time of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and the so- 

 journ of our ancestors in Holland to the arrival of the Pil- 

 grims at Plymouth and the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay. 



Later, Rev. Mr. Noyes read another paper "On the 

 Character and Career of Gov. John Winthrop." 



