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Schools, 1851

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Government Gazette. Friday, May 16, 1851. National School Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 May 1851 · page 5

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, May 16, 1851.— The descriptions of the following grants of land are published for general information, in order that the parties concerned may have an opportunity of correcting any…

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Exhibition of the School of Design, Royal Dublin Society

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 June 1851 · page 5

The first exhibition of works by the pupils of the recently-established School of Design, in connection with the Dublin Society, was opened to public view on New Year's Day…

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The Empire. Sydney, Thursday, July 3, 1851. the School of Arts

Empire · Thursday 3 July 1851 · page 2

THE Lecture Session—or, to speak correctly, what should be the Lecture Session—is rapidly passing away, mid not a single announcement of a coming Lecture…

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The Empire. Sydney, Friday,, July 4, 1851. the Church and School Lands

Empire · Friday 4 July 1851 · page 2

AMONG the little episodes in our colonial annals, our official records furnish one amusing enough, under the above designation. It would be wrong to refuse some…

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The Schoolmaster Abroad' in High Places

Empire · Monday 7 July 1851 · page 2

IT is a sign of the times, no less instructive for the higher classes, than it is beautiful to all, that noblemen: wearing the proudest hereditary honour's, now-a-days deseend…

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Books Used by the Denominational Schools

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 July 1851 · page 9

SOME time ago the advocates of schools, for which the title National is attempted to be usurped; but which we must consider and call irreligious schools, from their obvious…

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The Proposed National Public Schools. (From the Economist.)

Empire · Friday 11 July 1851 · page 4

The more we consider the national secular scheme of education, the less we approve of it. Free schools, supported by compulsory rates, to which parents are to be compelled…

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Books for Denominational Schools

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 July 1851 · page 11

WHEN we spoke of these books last week, we had not received the "First book of Modern Geography' published by Mr. Moore, of George-street. We gave the opinion of a British critic, the Athenaeum…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Industrial Schools for Young Women

Empire · Thursday 17 July 1851 · page 4

We would thus early, in the career of our journal, say a few words in favour of the education of the young women of the working classes. We shall afterwards have much to say on this…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 July 1851 · page 4

A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of this institution was held yesterday evening, for the purpose of considering certain business of which previous notice had been given. The…

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Mechanics' School of Arts

Empire · Friday 1 August 1851 · page 2

A special general meeting of the members, called by requisition in accordance with the law, to consider the state of the Institution and the means of promoting its greater efficiency, was hold…

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The School of Arts

Empire · Saturday 2 August 1851 · page 3

IF you desire a short and easy method of destroying the efficiency of a public institution devoted to the advancement of popular education, you have only to appoint…

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Mr. Longmore and the Schools

Empire · Monday 18 August 1851 · page 2

PERIHAPS the only thing public with which we can connect the name of Mr. Longmore is the Denominational Board of Education Let us see what are his services in this…

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"In Necessariis Unitas, in Dubiis Libertas, in Omnibus Charitas." the Vote on the School Estimates

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 August 1851 · page 7

OUR readers must remember well the indignant feelings aroused in the breast of very Catholic throughout the colony by the rejection, in the last session of Council, of…

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Original Correspondence. the Sydney School of Arts. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 29 August 1851 · page 3

SIR—Now that the Special Committee has given in its Repot, I feel at liberty to call the attention of the members of the School of Arts to the following statements. I deem it my…

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Mechanics School of Arts

Empire · Friday 29 August 1851 · page 3

An adjourned special meeting of the members was held on Thursday Evening, at the Theatre of the Institution, in Pitt-street, to receive the report of the Special Committee appointed on…

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The School of Arts and the Rev. David Blair

Empire · Saturday 30 August 1851 · page 2

AN extraordinary letter from the Rev. David Blair, in reference to the inquiry which has been instituted into the affairs of the School of Arts, appeared in our…

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Original Correspondence. Mechanics' School of Arts. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 2 September 1851 · page 4

SIR.—Having given insertion to a letter from the Rev. D. Blair, containing certain charges a ainst the General Committee of the above In situation, you will, perhaps, in common fairness,…

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Original Correspondence. the School of Arts. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 4 September 1851 · page 4

SIR—Those comments of yours on my letter are so truthful, os wise, and so indicative of good taste—exquisite taste, I may say—that I may be permitted to express my admiration of them…

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The National School Society. (From the Daily News, May 10.)

Empire · Friday 12 September 1851 · page 4

We have already referred to the struggle in the National School Society, which will come to an issue at the anniversary meeting on the 4th of June next. But as…

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