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The table of contents list Editorials, Literature, School News, Social News, and Athletics.

Editorial contributions were written by Chas. Grant Shaffer, G.M. Belfatto, and Jean Ashmead.

Literary essays, play, and poems were written by student contributors Caroline S. Romer, Mildred H. Gaffy, Alex. Goldberg, Marjorie Scarlett, Jane Abelson, Dorothy Fee, Margaret Coult, and Harold A. Greene.

Page 17 includes a photomechanical image of the Board of Editors of Pedagese.

School News included the following headlines: Teaching Appointments, Resolutions, At Webster, The Camera Club, Plans for Commencement, Sanctuary, and Perserphone, as well as Practice Notes.

Social News includes school happenings, marriages, where the faculty members spent Easter week, extract from a diary, and a Pedagese Dance.

Athletics included the first Gym Meet, which included the high jump, potato race, dash, broad jump, shotput, and pole climb. Basketball (boys) and Baseball (boys) were also mentioned.

There are three pages of local advertisements.

This small booklet, held together by a red-and-silver ribbon, came from the first triennial (every 3 years) reunion of the Model School Class of 1904. The booklet outlines some speeches given by members of the class and the names of each student. A partial transcription of the autographs is included.

This photograph, perhaps an official class picture, depicts the "Model 1900" boys class and their teacher in a classroom. A list identifying each person has been affixed to the back. While not all of the figures can be conclusively identified, educated guesses provide likely candidates for all but two of the students.

This small booklet records the Class Day exercises for the Model School's Class of 1904, depicting the class roster, the order of exercises, and the names of students performing. A reproduction of the corresponding commencement booklet can be found in "History of the Model Class of 1904" (see related materials below). No transcription.

This booklet from the 1903 Model School commencement includes lists of graduating students, their home towns, and their area of study. It also contains the list of commencement exercises. Of some note is the mention of an essay given by honor student Charlotta Miller on the Black poet and author Paul Lawrence Dunbar, which has unfortunately not survived. The student roster also includes several surnames that appear in other classes from around this period, namely Britton, De Cou, and Bosworth; these students may be siblings of those sharing their name. Some students from the Class of 1904 also appear. No transcription.

A photograph of a group of children in front of the Normal School, presumably a class portrait. An arrow in the right margin points to a student, but the name underneath the arrow is indistinct. "M. A. Hall" is faintly inscribed on the reverse, and in another hand is inscribed: "Gift of *Anne D Moore, W. Townshend, Vt 1/87" and "this belonged to Mrs. Keppele Hall -- aunt of Mrs. Moore's husband."

This grouping contains two items from very early Model School commencements. The first is a small invitation to the 1878 commencement ceremony at Taylor Opera House, in Trenton. The second is a (partly torn) booklet from the 1880 commencement, including a list of events and the names of the graduating students. No transcriptions, as the documents are typed.

This collection of four receipts for tuition, room, and board at the Model School gives insight into how much it cost to attend the de facto elite institution. The first two vouchers, made out to a John McCormick and from around 1862, show that the Normal School charged about $8.00 in tuition in its first decades. According to census statistics, an average New Jersey laborer spent about $2.50 per week on bread, so this was not an unsubstantial amount of money!

Forty years later, in 1902-1903, George Hildebrecht (owner of Trenton's Hotel Hildebrecht) paid $10.50 for per quarter for his son Albert. At this time, based on census statistics, this would have equaled about half a day's wages for the average Trenton industrial laborer.

No transcriptions, as the documents are largely typed.