Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1899 (Creation)
Extent
1 page
Name of creator
Biographical history
Model School graduate, class of 1899, and Thencanic Society member c. 1890s.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Charles Greene Baumgartner was born in 1881. He was a member of the Thencanic Society and graduated from the Model School in 1900. He died in Connecticut in 1968.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Later a member and president of the Trenton Board of Education. Brother of Trenton historian and librarian Mary J. Messler, and of fellow Thencanic member Benjamin E. Messler, all children of the prominent Trenton merchant Robert A. Messler. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156998369/james-stevens-messler
Name of creator
Administrative history
A literary and debate club at the Model School from 1882 to 1917. The members (only young men) focused on improving their oratory skills, personal appearance, and general comportment, with one member serving as "Critic" to evaluate the boys' behavior during each meeting. The literary aspects of the Society led to the publication of "The Signal" in 1885--while it started as a literary magazine through the Thencanic, it quickly escaped the Society's control and became a general Normal/Model School periodical. This club ended when the Model School closed in 1917. This version of the Thencanic should not be confused with the later revival in the 1930s with college students.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The Censors offer the following as topics for debate: trading the Philippines for the British West Indies, applying Civil Service Reform laws to municipal offices, and the benefits of a whipping-post over a jail. Transcription included.