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

A brief letter from an unidentified student of the Normal Debating Society, apologizing for some interpersonal difficulty with the Thencanic. The exact situation remains unclear but may relate to the matter with "Mr. Ivins" (see related materials). Transcription included.

Through this scrap of paper, Thencanic Secretary Francis "Frank" B. Lee resigned from the position of Thencanic Secretary. According to the book of officers, Lee served as Secretary starting in February 1886. No transcription due to the item's brevity.

Content warning: This document contains 19th century Western ideas about "civilized" and "uncivilized" peoples.
This unsigned oration from the eve of the 19th century gives some insight into the immense changes that occurred during those hundred years. The Thencanic student provides his take on world history, viewing it through the lens of "progress" for society and particularly technology. Transcription included.

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.

This scrapbook includes photographs, illustrations, commencement and class day booklets, correspondence, report cards, and ephemera collected by Emma R. Kerns, Model School Class of 1916. It offers insight into the daily lives and school careers of the Model students throughout the school's final years before its closure after the 1917 academic year. Later annotations also appear; some are perhaps by Miss Kerns before her death in 1977, but others most likely were added by past Trentoniana librarians following the book's donation ca. 1977. Any additions in a clearly different hand have been rendered in italics. Some of these italicized annotations simply read "index," probably referring to Trentoniana's card catalogue.

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. Kerns 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.

A long report by William Bamford that features many of the characteristics of the Thencanic's meetings: rowdy behavior from the members, tongue-in-cheek remarks, and discussion of the Society's debating practices. In this particular report, Bamford proposes a scoring system to ensure impartial judging ahead of the Society's debate on women's suffrage. Transcription included.

The Thencanic Society's mock congress for the first months of 1894 produced this packet of dockets, which includes the title of each bill and their supporters, plus a summary of further actions and the results of any votes. They unfortunately do not include the full text of each bill. Nevertheless, these dockets shed light onto the topics the Society deemed important, such as women's suffrage, annexing Canada, immigration, and the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. A partial transcription is included, which provides only a summary of each bill without directly copying them verbatim. Not every student's name has been connected with a person.

This report focuses on the rhetorical, oratorical, and grammatical missteps of the members who spoke at this meeting. Baumgartner also discusses the generally rowdy behavior of the students. Transcription included.