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The monthly meeting of the Catholic Teachers' Association took place on Saturday, 2nd June. A large number of teachers attended. Mr. O'Byrne, the vice-president, was in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 362 →THE object and effect of these institutions is to supply the want of a reformatory for children, so far as it is possible for private benevolence to supply such a want. The street arabs of both sexes are gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE object and effect of these institutions is to supply the want of a reformatory for children, so far as it is possible for private benevolence to supply such a want. The street arabs of both sexes are gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHILDREN of the class who attend ragged schools have now got to understand generally the nature of these institutions, and to have confidence in the teachers. It was not so at first. They had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEN we look, on the one hand, at the peculiar advantages secured to Sydney by a harbour unsurpassed by any in the world, and on the other at the multitude of boys growing up in habits of idleness and mischief, merely because no one will take them in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nothing so retards the development of our mineral [?] and makes investments in them so hazardous [?] of trained scientific engineers geologists, as the [?] Whether money can of cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quack ... Mr. H--N--N, Pupils ... Messrs. E--G--R, M--PH--S--N, and D--V--R. SCENE---Backyard of Empire Office, philanthropically fitted up for the occasion without much loss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The spirit of the times we live in is often a terrible enigma. It has been compared with equal truth and wisdom to the monster in the fable—the Sphinx—who devoured those that…
Continued on Trove, page 389 →HOME influences—for good or for evil—upon the minds of children are all powerful. If evil, the most strenuous and persistent efforts fire necessary to counteract these influences. There is, in such cases,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Having in a former letter given a santuary of the income, expenditure, cost per scholar, &c., of the Sydney Grammar School and the Sydney University, both of which appear to be conducted on a most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.—I observe in Mr. Bennett's letter, No. 2, in this day's Empire, the following statement—"It would appear that the boys in the National are far better tought than in the Denominational school, while a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BRIEF description of the daily routine at the Sussex-street School will be equally applicable, we believe, to the other ragged schools of the city. All the children, of both sexes — with the exception of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—It was far from my intention to have intruded on your columns thus early, as my last letter was published in the Empire so recently as the 27th June; but it has turned out as I anticipated; having trodden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I feel it is due to Mr. R. Bennet to offer some apology for writing anonymously, but I beg to assure him my object in doing so was entirely to avoid those personalities which have often been carried to such an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EXTRACTS from Minutes of Evidence taken, before the Trustoes of the Sydney Grammar School, sitting as a Committse of the Whole. TUESDAY, 22ND MAY, 1866…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Present—Mr. Knox in the chair, Mr. Pell, Dr. A'Beokett, Mr. Deas Thomson, C B. Mr. Stephens head master, and Mr. Pratt, mathematical master. Monsionr Pierre Dutruc, examined:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EXTRACTS from Minuttes of Evidenxe taken before the Trustees of the Sydney Gradmmar School, sitting as a Committee of the Whole. In the extracts from the minutes of evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AN enquiry, it appears, has lately been held (certainly not before it was wanted), into the management of the Sydney Grammar School; some extracts from the evidence taken at which enquiry the Empire has managed to beg, borrow, or "convey the wise it call" to its own WHEN is a housekeeper like rum? When she's a fine Jam-maker…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—The very Important township of Molong, which, if the inhabitant's have any just cause to complain of neglect by the Government, they certainly have none on the part of the Press, as they have had "greatness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I beg a little space in your journal to draw the attention of modern oducationalists to a few of the replis given by one of the masters, when examined by the trustees of the Sydney Grammar School on…
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