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At a joint session of the Thencanic Society and the Normal Debating Society, both schools' clubs agreed on the specifics of a debate. After deciding to hold the event before the other members of the schools, they decided a topic: on whether financial trusts benefit the country. While the document itself is undated, the names mentioned point to between 1894 (Professor Burt's first year) and 1901 (when Thomas H. Clinton graduated). 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.

These three resolutions by John A. Schultz, a Censor of the Thencanic Society at this time, give insight into the group's general workings. The first item involves an amendment to the By-Laws regarding the weekly Synopser, while the second and third involve invitations to and costs of the Society's 16th anniversary celebrations. Transcription included.

This report offers a brief summary of the events at the Thencanic's 16th anniversary celebrations. The Society's members and Normal/Model School staff made remarks (two staff members remain unidentified), and everyone enjoyed refreshments. Transcription included.

This report, by an author known only as "F.W.", provides both praise and criticism to the Thencanic members. The author stresses the importance of proper posture, oratory, and behavior, among other points needing improvement. Transcription included.

Two reports for the meeting, or meetings, in the last weeks of October. Both are dated October 27, but J. Foster Post's report likely refers to the meeting of October 20. Regardless, Post's report was rejected. The second, by an unidentified author named "R. Reynolds," directly criticizes the apparently poor quality Post's report.
Both reports describe events surrounding the Thencanic's anniversary celebrations, held the last Friday in October, which further complicates the question of dating. Either way, these reports together give insight into a long-running and much beloved annual Thencanic event. Transcription included.

This brief report summarizes the Thencanic's 17th anniversary celebrations. While only two of the non-Society guests came, everyone had a good time and ate plenty of food. Transcription included.

This resolution began the Thencanic Society's efforts to install a "memorial window" in the Normal/Model Schools' "chapel." See the related materials for further information on this project. 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.

Content warning: While the vast majority of this work contains no harmful content, one "joke" on page 141 includes insulting language about African-Americans.

This scrapbook includes photographs, illustrations, commencement and class day booklets, correspondence, ephemera, and manuscript materials collected by Grace B. Fletcher, Model School Class of 1907. It offers insight into the daily lives and school careers of the Model students throughout the first decade of the 20th century. While the bulk of the items pasted into the work date to around 1907, some date to as early as 1901. In addition, some annotations must have been added later, at least as early as 1916.

Due to the volume's bulky nature, it was not possible to digitize without disbinding the entire volume and scanning pages individually. Two photos of the book before this process are included at the end of the PDF. Pages have been scanned in order, skipping any blank sections; as a result, page numbers may appear to jump. Fletcher also pasted many booklets and folded items into these pages, and these items sometimes required multiple scans to entirely capture. Finally, note that file size limits have required a significant amount of compression to host this PDF, and may negatively affect the quality of the images. An unaltered version is available through Trentoniana upon request.

A partial transcription of the handwritten sections is included.

The following notes relate to specific pages of the document:

• The Class Day booklet on page 121 has not been scanned, as it is identical to one on page 87.
• The clippings found on pages 136-139 were not pasted into the book and may have originally been placed elsewhere.