The Sydney Denominational Schools
As the important subject of education will have to be early, taken up, it is fit that the public should have some further insight into the state of existing institutions. We shall,…
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Denominational Schools
As the Empire continues to extract from the "Report on Education" such passages as appear to place these schools in an unfavourable point of view, we think it only common…
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IT would be tedious to give in detail the testimony of the Commissioners respecting the state of the Denominational Schools throughout the country, and we shall not further try…
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IT will not be fair to the great question of education, if we do not submit to our readers a general view of the National Schools of the colony as the Commissioners have reported on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Empire. Thursday, June 12, 1856. Schoolmasters
WE perceive by the letters of two or three correspondents winch have appeared in our columns, that we are in some danger of being misunderstood in reference to our purpose in…
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The Denominational teachers have ably defended themselves and the great principles on which their system of education is founded. They have shown by the most unanswerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Catholic Schoolmasters of New South Wales. (Per favour of the Freeman's Journal.)
GENTLEMEN,—You are all aware that the gross and foul, mis-statements of the "learned three" called forth into existence an association composed of the teachers of the Denominational schools…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St. Mary's Seminarary—midwinter Examination of the Pupils
THE examination of the pupils in St.Mary's Seminary, preparatory to the midwinter vacation, commenced on Thursday last and terminated on Saturday. The boys —about one hundred and fifty in number—went…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mechanical Trades' Schools. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR, — It has occurred to me that the establishment of schools in which young persons, after having to some extent completed the ordinary course of moral and intellectual training, might be instructed in the various…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Review. Education: Final Report from the School Commissioners. Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 27th May, 1856. No. 22
This very important document is of incomparable interest to this colony, and calls for something more than a casual and desultory notice. Had the Commissioners published no reports before, this one is so full,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. W. H. Wells, Land Surveyor. Phillip-street, Sydney. Opposite Saint James's Grammar School
HAVING devoted the whole of his time during the last Twenty Years in Surveying and Tracing the Original Boundaries of Old Grants, subdividing estates, and preparing Plans for the various Auctioneering Establishments has made…
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →The School of Arts.—introductory Lecture
THE introdnctory lecture of the usual annual series, about to be given at the Mechanics' School of Arts, was delivered yesterday evening by G. K. Holden, Esq., M.L.C., in the new lecture hall of the…
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The first, or "Introductory," Lecture of the Winter Course was delivered last evening by the President, G. K. Holden, Esq., M.L.C., to a very numerous assemblage of the members of the institute and their friends,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Genevese Boarding School. Non-observance of the Sabbath in Geneve—education of the Swiss Peasantry
WE came to this place (Geneve) on the 8th of November, for the sake of the children, as the masters are excellent in Geneve. I have placed B[?] at a boarding school. He is getting on very well. There are three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mechanics' School of Arts. the Rev. John West's Lecture on the Fine Arts, Delivered on Tuesday Evening Last
THE subject of this lecture is the Fine Arts, as they reflect the intellectual and moral powers, and influence the social condition of men. We have all seen or heard of the Great Exhibition—…
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The following is the lecture on the "Fine Arts" delivered by the Rev. J. West, on Tuesday night, to the members of the School of Arts:— Mr. WEST (who was warmly received) introduced his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Answers to Correspondents. the Catholic Teachers' Society
We congratulate the Catholic Teacher of Sydney on their promptitude in forming the Society suggested by us a few weeks age. We are quite sure that very many advantages will flow from this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter River District. (From the Maitland Mercury of Saturday.) Maitland School of Arts
At the fortnightly meeting of the members of this institution, held at the Presbyterian School-room, on Thursday evening, the Secretary read the report received from the "Building Committee, as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Leaf From "The School-master's Note Book." "The Midsummer Breaking-up and Prize Distribution."
MY DEAR FRIENDS,—I must beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your kind consideration and attendance this morning; it is, I am sure, at some personal inconvenience to many of you. I am confident that…
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