Affichage de 186 résultats

On the occasion of George Washington's birthday, Paul Cloke presented this oration before the Thencanic on the U.S.'s first president. In this lengthy and fairly comprehensive account of Washington's life, Cloke peppers his writing with quotations from British politicians, interesting anecdotes about Washington, and a poem by Lord Tennyson. Transcription included.

Shortly after the victory of William McKinley in the U.S. Presidential election of 1900, Thencanic member Russell Throp gave this messy, partisan, and occasionally off-base account of McKinley's life and political career. Less than a year later, Leon Czolgosz would assassinate McKinley in Buffalo, NY. Transcription included.

"Senator" Briggs proposed this bill, concerning gambling suppression, at the Thencanic's Mock Congress. Though undated, Briggs last appears in the existing record ca. 1893. Transcription included.

This report comes out of the Thencanic Mock Congress's Committee on Industry, chaired by Frankland Briggs. The committee offers commentary on a number of proposed bills, although the legislation is identified only by number. The document gives insight into the goings-on at the Thencanic's Mock Congress. Transcription included.

As part of the Thencanic Society's Mock Congress, the Committee on Public Utilities & Roads offered these amendments to a bill that presumably related to toll roads. Transcription included.

One of two surviving bills from the 1897 Thencanic mock legislature, this House Bill relates to fraudulent attempts to solicit money. It is packaged in a baby-blue docket, complete with ribbon, suggesting the Thencanic society's devotion to a "real" legislature, as well as the social connections the boys' families doubtlessly had. Transcription included.

This booklet outlines the events of one of the Thencanic Society's "entertainments." The main item was Howard Hanson's farce-comedy "An Equilateral Triangle," the text of which does not survive. It does, however, include the names (or at least the first two initials) of the participating members, as well as their class years. No transcription, as the booklet is typed.

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.

This small booklet likely comes from the same unknown "black paper backing" scrapbook as several other documents from around 1918. It details the fifth annual debate between several debating societies of the New Jersey State Normal School and several from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College. The topic for the debate, which took place amid American intervention in the First World War, regards whether colleges should substitute military training for athletics during the war. No transcription.

The bulk of the collection pertains to Mildred’s time at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton from 1913-1915. Of special note is her diary, which begins with a daily account of camping in Shawmont, Pennsylvania (now Roxborough, Northwest Philadelphia) before going off to Normal where she writes of her classroom and social activities. Her copy of the Seal yearbook is heavily signed and annotated with alumni information up to 1980. Her photograph collection documents students in their everyday lives on campus including in their dorm rooms, wearing gym uniforms, performing a Japanese Tea ceremony, and a possible inside joke of her and her friends enacting characters based on their teacher William N. Mumper (the yearbook is inscribed to indicate “Mumpers” characters). There also are several photographs of faculty members (before they were pictured in the yearbooks).

There are some additional materials from the late 1970s including Normal School alumni lists and photographs of her paintings from her post-retirement career as an artist.