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Schools, 1837

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The School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 7 September 1837 · page 3

MR. CAPE, Head Master of the Sydney College, delivered an entertaining and instructive Lecture in the Mechanics' School of Arts, on Friday evening last. The audience, which we were sorry…

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Report of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society

The Sydney Times · Saturday 9 September 1837 · page 2

The present age has been distinguished from all that have preceded it, as well by an extensive and laborious investigation into the moral and physical state of the labouring classes, as by a…

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St. James' Sunday School. to the Editor of the Colonist

The Colonist · Thursday 14 September 1837 · page 2

SIR,—Observing in your last number, a paragraph acknowledging the receipt of a letter, "complaining of the present management of St. James' Sunday School, and that it is rapidly…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 14 September 1837 · page 3

ON Friday evening last, Mr. Cape, Head Master of the Sydney College, delivered his second lecture on English Literature. As, in the first division of his subject, he had treated upon the…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 21 September 1837 · page 4

ON Friday evening last, the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, of the Australian College, delivered the first portion of his Lectures on the Properties of Matter, and we were happy to observe that it…

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Domestic Intelligence. [Continued]. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 28 September 1837 · page 6

ON Friday evening last, the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie delivered his second Lecture on the Properties of Matter. Without adverting, in any way, to the vain and metaphysical speculations…

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Colonial Literature. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Times · Saturday 30 September 1837 · page 4

ON Friday evening last, the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie delivered his second Lecture on the Properties of Mutter. Without adverting, in any way, to the vain and metaphysical speculations…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 5 October 1837 · page 3

On Friday last, the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie lectured on the subject of Gravitation, and, in a clear and argumentative manner, introduced to the notice of his bearers many of the phenomena which…

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Sunday Schools

The Colonist · Thursday 5 October 1837 · page 3

WE are happy to hear that the Sunday School of St. Phillip's Church is in a very flourishing condition. On Sunday last no less than a hundred and seventy-eight children attended, and…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 12 October 1837 · page 3

IN our last number we expressed our regret, that circumstances prevented us from giving a more connected outline of Mr. Mackenzie's third lecture in the School of Arts, and we then promised to…

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Religious Intelligence. Irish School Society

The Colonist · Thursday 19 October 1837 · page 7

THE Annual Meeting of the Irish School Society took place yesterday (May 17) in the Hanover Square Rooms. After several excellent speeches had been delivered by Lord Galloway, the Rev. Mr…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 19 October 1837 · page 4

ON Friday evening last, Mr. Carmichael delivered the first of two lectures on Pneumatics. He began by recalling to the recollection of the audience the general outline presented to the…

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Colonial Literature. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Times · Saturday 21 October 1837 · page 4

ON Friday October 13, Mr. Carmichael delivered the first of two lectures on Pneumatics. He began by recalling to the recollection of the audience the general outline presented to the…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 26 October 1837 · page 4

ON Friday evening last, Mr. Carmichael resumed the subject of Pneumatics. The main object attempted during the preceding evening's lecture, he observed, was to…

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Schools

The Colonist · Thursday 26 October 1837 · page 3

THERE is a great error in education, at the present day, which it behoves us to guard against with the utmost vigilance, lest, after all our boasted improvements in useful and scientific knowledge,…

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Colonial Literature. Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Times · Saturday 28 October 1837 · page 4

ON Friday October 20, Mr. Carmichael resumed the subject of Pneumatics. The main object attempted during the preceding evening's lecture, he observed, was to…

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Preparatory Schools

The Sydney Times · Saturday 4 November 1837 · page 2

IN England there is scarcely any more lucrative occupation to persons well qualified, that is to young females of good sense, good temper, and good breeding,…

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Preparatory Schools. to the Editor of the Colonist. Sydney, November 10, 1837

The Colonist · Thursday 16 November 1837 · page 2

SIR,—An article headed "Preparatory Schools," appeared in the last number of The Sydney Times, purporting to show the great benefit which would be derived, not only to the "State," but…

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Public Meeting Yesterday, at the Mechanics School of Arts to address Her Majesty and the Queen Dowager

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 17 November 1837 · page 2

The Meeting called together by a requisition of a number of gentlemen, took place yesterday as above stated. The hour announced was twelve o'clock, by…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

The Colonist · Thursday 23 November 1837 · page 3

THE periodical labour of this useful and highly important Institution terminated on Friday evening, the 3rd November, when Dr. Nicholson delivered an interesting lecture on Agricultural…

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