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Schools, 1883

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Use of Hand Tools in schools

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 16 August 1883 · page 2

SPEAKING of the refusal of the Massachussits House of Representatives to pass to a third rending the measure which authorizes instruction in the elementary use of hand tools…

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A Sydney "Private" School

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1883 · page 4

The following report has been forwarded by one of the school attendance officers to the head of his Department:—"I have the honour to…

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Kitty Dunolly; My Schoolmate. a Victorian Sketch. Chapter I.

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 1 November 1883 · page 1

"CORRIE!" "Well?" "They think me the veriest wretch that ever were shee-leather, don't they?"…

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Kitty Dunolly; My Schoolmate. a Victorian Sketch. By G.E.C.

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 8 November 1883 · page 1

Jack bowed, and, after the usual remarks, turned again to me. "I have brought Laurie and Sportsman down, for I presume Miss Dunolly can ride,"…

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Standard of Proficiency in Public Schools

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 8 November 1883 · page 4

THE important question of the standards of proficiency in public school has lately been considered by the conference of public school Inspectors. Those gentlemen have made certain…

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Distinguished Schoolboys

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 21 November 1883 · page 1

A reviewer of a recent book on life at Eton, says:—The sketches of Lord Rosebery and Lord Randolph Churchill are particularly good. "Rosebery (or Dalmeny, as he then…

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Schools and Sedition

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 29 November 1883 · page 2

IT was quite time (observes the Australian) that Archbishop Goold should take the action which he has taken now, of imperatively prohibiting the use of Roman Catholic schoolrooms for…

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Bega School of Arts

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1883 · page 2

THE Annual General Meeting of Members of the Bega School of Arts for the nomination of officers and committeemen, election of auditors, and the reception of…

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School Exhibition

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1883 · page 2

TWELVEMONTHS ago Mr. James Harris came from Moruya, not without the encouragement derivable from promises of support, but without obtaining a…

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