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THE success of the Grammar School motion last week is a gratifying circumstance, nnd indicates considerable enlightenment on the subject of education at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE are glad to find the favourable reception given by the members of the Legislative Council to the petition, presented by Mr. Parkes, praying for the institution of one or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—In your review of the Reports of the Denominational and National Boards of Education, in the Herald of Thursday last, you state that "we have here the curious fact, that while the confusion resulting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As reported in our last, the iniation of the proceedings of the Maitland School of Arts, under that title, and its revised rules, was appropriately commenced on Thursday last, by an opening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is truly, with the utmost gratification that we tell the existence of such a school in the colony as that at present in Clarence Town, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. This,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nothing is easier for a writer who is disposed to advocate a favourite theory or to decry the opposite, than by an off-hand dash of his pen, to magnify some leading feature of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The first Public Meeting of the New South Wales Sabbath School Union, which was established about seven or eight months since, was held yesterday evening, in the Congregational Church, Pitt-street. About three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting of the members and friends of the New South Wales Sabbath School Union was held on Tuesday evening in the Congregational Church, Pitt-street, Mr. Fairfax in the chair. After singing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As the subject of grammar schools has been lately exciting some attention both in Sydney and elsewhere, a few words about them may not be unacceptable to the public. There seems to be a very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC MEETING of the working classes of Sydney and the suburbs was convened by advertisement on Tuesday evening. The room was crowded to excess, and Mr. Taylor was called to the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Select Committee appointed on the 12th July, 1854, to "consider and report upon tho general subject of establishing a Nautical School in the port of Sydney," have agreed to the following report:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Select committee, appointed on the 12th July, 1854, to consider and report upon the general subject of establishing a Nautical School in the port of Sydney," have agreed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is clear that the very large outlay of the public funds for the founding of that valuable Institution, the Sydney University, will be almost thrown away, unless we have a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although but a fortnight has elapsed since Mr. Luoas introduced the subject of Industrial Education to the notice of the House of Commons, his proposition has excited a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE proposal to establish a public grammar school as a feeder for the University has again renewed the quœstio vexata of education. When through the exertions of Mr. Wentworth, the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Second Progress Report from the Select Committee on Education, with Minutes of Evidence. (Printed by order of the Legislative Council.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We see no reason why something of the same sort should not be tried for girls' schools, which has been so successful in our old public schools, and in such recent establishments as Marlborough College…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Once get a schoolmaster to take his head boys to the nearest corn-mill -- once teach a mistress that she may be well employed in talking about a souppot and its contents -- and a most beneficial social…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Government of this country is totally paralyzed as respects education. The church, which it made its tool, is now its master : "It sits on its beast, and troubles in rest,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AT the weekly moeting of this class on Friday evening, W. T. Cape, president, at usual look the chair, and the adjourned debate on the question "is the Alliance of Austria with England and France desrable," was resumed. The discussion of this question…
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