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A lengthy report that spares no criticism towards the author's fellow members. Brace provides commentary on the society's behavior, the President's missteps, and even the clothing of one student. Transcription included.

A brief but positive report on the behavior of the Society. Britton offers no real negative comments, unusual for Critic's Reports. Transcription included.

A short report, but a historically interesting one as the Thencanic's debate on the "Cuban Question" marks the first mention of the events leading to the Spanish-American War the following year. Transcription included.

The critic gives an enthusiastically positive review, describing the orations by William Bamford and Thomas C. Hill. While the author's name is somewhat indistinct, the book of officers suggests Egbert MacKenzie. Transcription included.

The members of the Thencanic discuss plans for a "Blow-Out" party to mark the end of the academic year. The current members met with alumni at a local bakery, each student contributing 25 cents for the affair. Transcription included.

John A. Schultz, Thencanic Secretary, kept this journal of the group's mock legislature for the first months of 1897. In addition to describing the events of and bills introduced at each session of the legislature, he lists each committee, their members, and the state each member represented. Transcription included.

Perhaps in response to the membership's rowdy behavior, the Thencanic Society established a committee of three students to assign seats for each member. Following a brief report, a chart includes the names of all of the Society's members at this time. Transcription included.

This set of four documents details the history of the Thencanic memorial window, which sat in the "Chapel" of the Normal/Model Schools campus. Through Philadelphia glassmaker Alfred Godwin, the Society raised money from among its members and ex-members (nearly all of whom have been identified) to install a window celebrating philosophy and the Thencanic. The window cost $75.00, approximately $2,800 as of 2024. Transcriptions included.

Trenton journalist/historian and former Thencanic President Francis B. Lee writes three letters to the Society, one for each of its anniversaries from 1897 to 1899. While Lee was unable to make the first two events, he states his intentions to be present at the third. Transcriptions included.