Schools in Victoria
Just before the general election, some of the candidates who were about to witch the world with noble theories of public instruction, to be administered as cheaply as Mr…
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188 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 10
B. Y. and the Public Schools (To the Editor of the Protestant and Standard.)
SIR,--In your issue of the 15th instant appears a letter on "Ecclesiastical Arthority," with much of which I agree; but there is one remark of Ris. which I most respectfully deny. It is…
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THE Fort-street Schools stand on about two-and-a-half acres of land, in one of the most elevated positions in Sydney. They consist of three brick buildings, and three wooden pavilions. The central portion of the…
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WE have been requested to republish the following letter, addressed to the Cumberland Times, by the Rev. George F. Macarthur, Principal of the King's School, Paramatta:-…
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THE Fort-street Schools stand on about two-and-a-half acres of land, in one of the most elevated positions in Sydney. They consist of three brick buildings, and three wooden pavilions. The central portion of the…
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THE Fert-street Schools stand on about two-and-a-half acres of land, in one of the most elevated positions in Sydney. They consist of three brick buildings, and three wooden pavilions. The central portion of the…
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SIR,—Some of Mr. Gordon's objections to superior schools may I think be satisfactorily answered. He assumes (naturally enough in the absence of specific information) that such schools create additional expenditure. "These…
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A LARGE and influential meeting of miners was held at the Royal Hotel, Forest Reefs, on Saturday, the 22nd instant, to hear the report from the deputation appointed at a previous meeting to wait on the M[?]istcr for L[?]s, in reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Superior Schools." to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—It is manifest that Professor Smith has no very high opinion of elementary education. Through his letter in last Thursday's Herald he alleges, though somewhat indirectly, that elementary education does…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Triumph of the Public School System. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—There are some facts alluded to in your first leader of this morning which cannot but strike the mind of a candid observer as singularly suggestive. The one is, that the number of children taught in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →John's Fag in Dame Eueopa's School
The following review of this clever pamphlet is taken from the Freeman's Journal :— We learn that most of the big boys at Dame Europa's School kept fags, whom they treated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Catholic School, Kent-street South
This school, the foundation stone of which was laid only a few months since, is now fast approaching completion. It is a fine commodious building, well suited to the purpose for which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Priests and the Public Schools. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)
SIR,--The Roman Catholic bishops of New South Wales, in their addresses to their congregations, are in the constant habit of telling them that they are not to send their children to…
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Housemaid (defiantly): OH YES ! YER AIRS AND YER GRACES IS ALL VERY WELL TO THEM AS DON'T KNOW YER, BUT I 'APPEN TO REMEMBER THE TIME WHEN YOU WAS RUNNIN' BAREFOOT ABOUT SURRY 'ILLS. Lady's Maid (sarcastically): QUITE TRUE ; BUT IN MY TIME IT WAS CALLED SURRY HILLS. Housemaid (furiously) : OH, INDEED ! LA NOW, AIN'T WE EDDICATED? WHAT GRAMMARIANS WE ARE. WHERE DID YOU PICK UP YER HAITCHES ?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Visit to the Roman Catholic Denominational School
About half past ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, his Lordship visited the Roman Catholic Denominational School and heard the children examined in mental arithmetic and geography, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Religious Teaching in Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In a leading article in the Herald of the 1st instant upon the Report of the Council of Education for 1870, allusion is made to the opinion prevalent with many, that "religious education can be more effectually given in…
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The Rev. Llewelyn Davies in the current number of the Contemporary Review undertakes to show that theology has been indebted for important improvements to the secular world…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Bishop of Dunedin on Schools and Benevolent Institutions
THE Catholic people of Dunedin may be congratulated on the acquisition of a prelate so energetic and fearless as Dr. Moran. We have before us a copy of a discourse on…
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