FIELD MEETING AT BRADFORD, SEPT. 16, 1887. 



The third field meeting of the season was held at Brad- 

 ford, Sept. 16, 1887, by invitation of Hon. George Cogs- 

 well, President of the Trustees of Bradford Academy. 



The day was fine and the party left Salem for Bradford 

 vid Somerville and Haverhill by the 8.43 o'clock train on 

 the Boston & Maine Railroad. Bradford Academy, where 

 the meeting was held, was reached at half-past eleven 

 o'clock and a cordial welcome was extended to the visitors 

 by President Cogswell and other officers of the Academy. 

 What remained of the forenoon was spent, as usual, in 

 delightful rambles among the quaint and rural scenery of 

 this charming old town as well as in inspecting the much 

 enlarged and beautiful grounds surrounding the Academy 

 Hall, and in enjoying from the roof of the main building, 

 now much extended by recent additions of concert and 

 lecture rooms and gymnasium, an unrivalled panorama, 

 including the lovely Merrimac, a picturesque view of the 

 growing city of Haverhill, with the fine estates of Indian 

 Hill and Kenoza and the cardboard castle at Laurel Hill, 

 lately occupied by Sir Edward Thornton. 



At one o'clock lunch was laid in Academic Grove, where 

 many kind attentions were paid to the party by the peo- 

 ple of Bradford. At half-past two o'clock the afternoon 

 session was called in the hall of the Academy, the Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Wheatland, in the chair. There were about 

 three hundred persons present, including the pupils of the 

 school. 



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