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Model School instructor Oliver Steves offers this sworn statement regarding the behavior of the Thencanic Society's Thomas D. Waldron. For unclear motives, The Signal "assailed" Waldron's character, and Steves came to his defense. Transcription included.

The image shows students and faculty standing and sitting in front of the main entrance to the school. A portion of the image is missing and the words "Normal 1887" are written in the missing space. Additionally, the word "Mother" and written above a person standing next to a column in the left quarter of the photograph. The back of the photograph is inscribed with the following: "Dorothy Stevens Mount [class of] 29. Her mother (Isabel Gulick) marked."

Transcription of Thencanic Society resolution on Prof. Scobey, 19 April 1887

The Thencanic Society offers Mathematics professor Frank Scobey congratulations on his recent marriage to Miss Isadora Williams. Transcription included.

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.

Before the Thencanic Society established a mock Congress of the United States, they seem to have used a mock New Jersey State Assembly. This bill, a slightly juvenile and tongue-in-cheek effort to prohibit boys at the Model School from trespassing in the girls' hall, on pain of eating cafeteria food, demonstrates this initiative. Transcription included.

1888 Normal School Commencement program

The image shows the students and teachers of the Boys classes of the Model School from 1887-1888. The people in the photograph are predominately standing in front of the closed doors of an entryway to the Model School. Two people are sitting on the grass in front of the larger group. Many people are holding hats. Some are wearing hats. Two students are holding baseball bats.