Schools for Mediocrity
Academies and schools of art may be valuable for training mediocrity, but they have not proved themselves to be the best. places for the development of genius…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Schools
Schools, 1911
207 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 11
Re-grading of Teachers
The Re-grading Board for Teachers visited Goulburn on Saturday. Those on the board were Messrs. P. Board, Under-Secretary for Public Instruction, and Mr. Irving, member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School Inspector Appointed From England
Mr. W. J. Elliott has been appointed to the position of Inspector of Secondary Schools under the Department of Public Instruction. Mr. Elliott holds the degree of M.A. of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yass Teachers’ Association
The usual monthly meeting of the above Association was held at the District School on Saturday last, and despite the unfavorable weather there was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District School Additions
Mr. W. Securr has just completed his contract for important additions to the Yass District School. In the new building the classes for Manual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Teachers' Association
The usual meeting of the above association was held at South Goulburn S.P. School on Saturday. The business of the meeting was an address, with practical demonstration, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young School of Arts
The usual monthly meeting of the committee of the Young School of Arts was on Friday evening last. Mr. R. W. Burstal occupied the chair, and these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schoolgirls' Fate
Seven schoolgirls of various nationalities had a terrifying experience on the Lake of Geneva, and one of them was drowned, with their teacher, in consequence of a collision with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evening Continuation School
Subsequent to the annual meeting of the Goulburn District School Parents and Citizens' Association on Thursday evening a meeting of the committee was held. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School of Arts
The monthly meeting of the committee of the above was held at the rooms of the institute on Tuesday last. Mr. C. T. Clifton (V.P.), in the absence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More School-boy Strikes. London, September 12
The boys of the County Council Schools at Shoreditch, Islington, and Deptford struck yesterday, demanding a Wednesday half-holiday, the payment of a penny per week for monitors,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schoolboy Strikes. Remarkable Epidemic. London, September 13
There has been a continuance of the schoolboy strikes. At Ashton-under-Lyne, Grimsby, Bradford, Sheffield, and Hull hundreds of boys paraded the streets proclaiming that they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Address to Teachers
MR. W. WILLIAMS, B.A., Inspector of Schools, Yass, delivered a most interesting address to the teachers of the district on 9th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teachers Association
The monthly meeting of the local branch of Teachers' Association was held on the 9th. The President (Mr. Denning) occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schoolboy Strikes. London, Sept. 15
Schoolboy strikes are occurring min many centres, including Aberdeen, Dublin, and Bristol. The chief demand is "no cane." At Gateshead the strikers demanded a penny a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of Methodist School-church
The opening of the Methodist School Church in Cowper-street was successfully performed on Sunday afternoon. There was a big attendance of those interested. Prior to the service inside…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →School Teacher Abducted
The disappearance of a school teacher named Miss Brice, a relative Mr. R. P. Roblio, Premier of Manitoba (Canada) started a hue and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Monteagle Public School
At the quarterly examination of the above school the highest marks were secured by the following pupils :— Class 4.—Renee Johnson 1, William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New School Church Opening
The opening of the new Methodist School Church in Cowper-street, South Goulburn was continued on Friday evening, the occasion being further marked by a tea-meeting and concert…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teachers’ Conference
ON Monday last a conference of teachers was held in the Mechanics’ Institute, Harden, the delegates present being as follows : Yass, 2 ; Murrumburrah, 3,…
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