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This series of three resolutions/letters documents two private debates and one public one between the Thencanic and the Normal Debating Society. The resolutions do not include the topics for debate, nor the names of the debaters. The identities of the Normal School students cannot be conclusively determined. Transcriptions included.

This card, thanking the recipient for their condolences following the death of former U.S. President Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886), was found among the correspondence of the Thencanic Society. No further information is available, but the card indicates the Thencanic's members maintained connections with notable figures even in its earliest years. No transcription.

This card was likely sent to the Thencanic Society from the Normal Debating Society (NDS). It invites the Model School students to "an entertainment" that the NDS was hosting in the "Model Chapel." No other information available. No transcript due to this item's brevity.

In this brief letter, State Normal School Principal Washington Hasbrouck thanks the Thencanic Society for electing him an honorary member. As the Thencanic was founded in 1882, Hasbrouck must have been one of the first honorary members. Transcription included.

James Green pens the Thencanic Society's president a short letter thanking the group for electing him honorary member. Transcription included.

These four letter all came to the Thencanic Society by its supervisor, Professor Oliver Mordorf. The first (1893) thanks the Society for electing Mordorf honorary member. In the last three letters (1897-1899), Mordorf apologizes each year for being unable to attend the Society's anniversary celebrations. Transcriptions included.

From his dormitory at Princeton University, Thencanic alumnus Carl H. Rickey thanks the Society for inviting him to their anniversary celebration and apologizes for being unable to attend. As some compensation for his absence, Rickey provides some advice for the group's current membership. Transcription included.

Former Thencanic President Harvey Whitehead thanks the Society for electing him honorary member, and extends to the group his best wishes for their success. Transcription included.

Captain Charles Sigsbee, commander of the U.S.S. Maine at the time of its explosion in Havana Harbor in February 1898, thanks the Thencanic Society for electing him an honorary member. The Thencanic admitted to the membership several notable figures from the Spanish-American War. Transcription included.

William Bamford, Model School Class of 1896, included this letter with his book of Thencanic Society officers from 1882 to 1896. In it he explains his process of creating the work and why he assembled it. It provides important contextual information on this essential document. Transcription included.