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Schools, 1841

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The School System

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 8 May 1841 · page 2

WE feel in duty bound to express our gratitude for the "admiration" with which our contemporary of the Gazette regards our "vigilance." Indeed, we should be culpable to sleep at our post while so…

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Edinburgh School of Arts

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1841 · page 3

The following is a brief outline of an excellent lecture delive red in Nov. last, in the Edinburgh School of Arts, by the Rev. Mr. Bennie, on the advantages of such institutions to the…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1841 · page 2

YESTERDAY evening, a deputation from the Committee of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, (consisting of Messrs. Cowlishaw, Patten, and John Bibb.) waited upon Mr. Charles Kemp,…

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Ladies' Corner. Evening Prayer. at a Girl's School

The Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 May 1841 · page 7

Hush! 'tis a holy hour--the quiet room Seems like a temple, while yon soft lamp sheds A faint arid starry radiance through the gloom, And the sweet stillness, down on fair young…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Friday 28 May 1841 · page 2

WE are informed, that the Committee for Lectures, have resolved to have the lectures begun next week; and accordingly, Mr. Rennie has been appointed to give the opening lecture…

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St. Patrick's Orphan School, and Girls' Primary School, Windsor

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1841 · page 2

THESE two establishments, so well deserving of support, are visited daily by a charitable lady of high character and respectability, who, in reply to some questions we put to her relative to the kind of…

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Domestic Intelligence. School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1841 · page 2

On Friday evening, the opening lecture was delivered by Mr. Reunie to a very crowded audience, not only the Theatre, but the Committee room adjoining, being choke full. The gas was…

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Domestic Intelligence. School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 2

ON Tuesday evening, Mr. Rennie delivered a lecture to a very full audience, explanatory of the fine models of bridges and roofs, presented by the Surveyor-General, Sir T. L. Mitchell…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1841 · page 2

IN the absence of other subjects of general discussion, we hardly know of any which may possess more interest than those which are held [?] to the public, in the shape of general…

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The Meeting at the Mechanic's School of Arts, for Lighting the Town of Sydney with Gas

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1841 · page 2

This Meeting, which excited so much attention among all classes of the community (mirabile dictu) turned out a failure. About a dozen individuals assembled, including the chairman,…

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Original Poetry. a School-of-arts Jeu D'esprit. Read by Mr. Rennie on Tuesday, 29th June

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1841 · page 4

"Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning; And of their vain contest appeared no end."—…

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St. James' Grammar School

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1841 · page 2

We had the pleasure of attending the examination of the lads upon this establishment on Thursday last, and were exceedingly gratified by the ready and intelligent manner in which…

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Church and School Lands

The Sydney Herald · Monday 12 July 1841 · page 2

AGENT'S OFFICE, 11, KING-STREET EAST. 9TH JUNE, 1841.—Notice is hereby given, that on Tuesday, the 12th day of October next, the following lands, forming a portion of the estates…

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Domestic Intelligence. [?]Host Discussion at the School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1841 · page 3

[?] Monday evening, the lecture room of the [?]chool of Arts was crowded to the door, long [?]fore the time announced for taking the chair, [?]d as length there was [?]ely standing room,…

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Statesmen at School: Lesson, Immigration. (From the Colonial Gazette.)

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1841 · page 1

IT is a common saying that you cannot judge of a house by one brick of it: Parliament seems to think quite the reverse—that by single bricks it is the best way to judge of houses…

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Domestic Intelligence. [?] Discussion at the School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1841 · page 3

Monday evening, of the most densely [?]ded and respectable audiences ever before [?] at the School of Arts, assembled to hear [?] termination of the debate on apparitions…

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Original Correspondence. School of Arts. To [?]he Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Friday 30 July 1841 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—During the debate of last Monday evening, at the School of Arts, Professor Rennie, in the exercise of his assumed authority, of Literary Dictator of New South Wales,…

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Statesmen at School-Lesson, Emigration

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 3 August 1841 · page 1

It is a common saying that you cannot judge of a house by one brick of it: Parliament seems to think quite the reverse- that by single bricks is the best way to judge of houses. Thursday…

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Debating Class at the School of Arts

The Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 August 1841 · page 11

"To drink, or not to drink, that is the question," the subject for debate last Monday evening, attracted the largest audience we have ever seen in the building. The large table had been…

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Domestic Intelligence. School of Arts

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 5 August 1841 · page 2

ON Monday evening, no fewer than seventyseven new members were ballotted for and admitted; and besides members, about one hundred strangers paid for admission to hear the…

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