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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.

At the end of the 1904-1905 academic year, the Thencanic Society held a reunion banquet for its members and alumni, the product of which was this booklet. The event included a number of speeches by past Thencanic Presidents (and James M. Green). Perhaps most importantly, the booklet elaborates the names of the Thencanic's presidents through the February 1905 term. A partial transcription, covering only the autographs, is included.

A note: Trentoniana owns two copies of this booklet, which are identical aside from the autographs section. The first three pages of the attached PDF cover the entirety of the first copy, while the final page is the only unique part of the second.

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.

In this resolution, the Thencanic establishes for itself a Mock Senate and appoints a President, two clerks, and two Sergeants-at-Arms for the body. One of the clerks cannot be connected with anyone with the information available. Transcription included.