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Schools, 1858

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Teachers' Farewell Address to the Archdeacon

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 2

The following address was presented to the Ven. the Archdeacon, on Saturday, the 4th instant, by the gentlemen whose names are attached to it. To the Venerable the Archdeacon of Sydney, and…

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School of Arts Lectures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 5

LAST night, the Hon. S. A. Donaldson, M.L.A., delivered, in the form of an extemporaneous, lecture, his recollections of a sojo[?]rn in Mexieo, in 1832-33. The Rev. G. H. Stanley—who occupied the chair—having…

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Newtown School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 3

THE first general meeting of the members and others interested in the formation of this institution was held, on Monday evening, in their temporary rooms, Missenden Road. The meeting had been called by the committee who, at the first initiation of the Society,…

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Clergy Daughters' School at Waverley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1858 · page 5

CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE. YESTEDAY afternoon, towards two o'clock, numerous carriages and pedestrians might be seen approaching the sight of the Clergy Daughters' School, to be…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We are not responsible for the opinions and statements of our correspondents.] Our Educational Establishments, or Catholic Grammar Schools

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 22 September 1858 · page 4

SIR— In my last communication on the above most important topic, I intimated that I would shortly submit a few cursory observations on the comparative merits of the systems of education,…

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Proposed School of Arts at Balmain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 September 1858 · page 8

A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Balmain was held, pursuant to advertisement, on Wednesday evening, in the old wooden Church, Darling-street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Provisional…

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Important to Schoolmasters

The Band of Hope Journal and Australian Home Companion · Saturday 25 September 1858 · page 15

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The National Schools Again

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 29 September 1858 · page 4

A writer in a morning contemporary has called attention to the fact, that the books published or sanctioned by the board have been almost all written or edited by Protestants,…

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School Op Arts, Parramatta. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 October 1858 · page 8

SIR,—An unsuccessful application having been lately made to the Government by the members of the School of Arts of this town, for a site whereon to [?] a building suitable to their wants, I would beg leave…

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Parramatta School of Arts. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 October 1858 · page 8

SIR,—In your publication of yesterday appears a letter, signed J. D. E., referring to the above institution, and suggesting to its committee the propriety of applying to the trustees of the park for a grant of the…

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Clergy Daughter's School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 October 1858 · page 9

ON Wednesday, 16th September, the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Clergy Daughter's School, took place at Waverley, a village about five miles from Sydney. The site chosen,—granted for its use by the…

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Parliamentary Paper. Denominational Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1858 · page 5

THE following return has been printed, to an Address from the hon. the Legislative Council (moved by Mr. Holden), that his Excellency the Governer-General would be pleased to cause to be laid upon the Table,…

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Our Educational Establishments, or Catholic Grammar Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 October 1858 · page 1

SIR— Your courteous forbearance allows me to enter at once upon a comparative review of the programmes of studies published by the authorities of the Sydney Grammar School, and St. Mary's…

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The Denominational Schools

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 3 November 1858 · page 3

THE return recently laid before the Legislative Council, giving a statistical view of the Denominational Schools throughout the colony, calls for some notice at our hands…

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Denominational Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1858 · page 4

SIR— From the able manner in which you have laid the particulars of the parliamentary return of the Denominational Schools of the Colony before the public, in your able leader of last Wednesday, I…

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School Statistics

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 1 December 1858 · page 2

We beg to call the especial attention of those of our readers who feel an interest in the subject of education (and what right-minded person does not?) to the subjoined very comprehensive and searching…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We are not responsible for the opinions and statements of our correspondents.] Catholic Education—grammar-schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 December 1858 · page 3

SIR—It will be seen that in the objections which urged in my letter of Wednesday last against the Sydney Grammar School, ns a place of education for Catholic youth, I confined myself to the…

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Statistics of New South Wales. No. VIII.—SCHOOLS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1858 · page 4

OF that most important class of educational appliances, the Sunday Schools of the colony, our Annual Book of Statistics is still devoid of information. Let us hope that under the new…

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The Schools. To the Editor, of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 December 1858 · page 2

SIR,—As educational matters seem to be passing over with unusual tameness this season, allow me to invite the attention of your readers, concerned in the welfare of our youth, to the interest which they excite in the…

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The Schools. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 December 1858 · page 3

SIR,—Had you reported the proceedings at the King's School, Parramatta, on the 15th instant, they would have very much resembled those of the Brighton College, which, at the request of Mr. Cape, you publish…

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