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Sydney · Schools

Schools, 1871

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Opening of the Public School-house Liverpool. [From a Correspondent.] August 24Th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 August 1871 · page 3

THIS building, which is now finished for the reception of children, is substantially built of brick, surrounded by a large play-ground, and is capable of containing 140 children, having a class-room attached. The contractors are…

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Public School Teachers. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 28

SIR,—In your last you had a leader upon elevating the position and status of the primary teacher; will you allow me, in the columns of your journal, to show what this "status" really is? I am a Public School teacher in my eleventh year…

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Facts About the New South Wales School System. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 11

SIR,—Much has been said for and against the Public School System now in operation in this colony; and much self-glorification has been used and received by its founders in consequence…

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National Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 6

Dublin, June 28.—Amost important resolution on the subject of the National Schools has been carried by the Irish Hierarchy at a recent meeting at Maynooth. It…

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The Prussian System of Popular Education. Compulsory Schooling- Organization-what Is Taught

Empire · Tuesday 12 September 1871 · page 3

To trace upward the course of a German child, we must begin with the primary school. Here, undoubtedly, has the system been brought to its greatest perfection, as no teachers are admitted to…

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German High-School Education

Evening News · Friday 15 September 1871 · page 3
Also in Empire

WE now come to the two high-sohools of the German system, the gymnasium and the real school, each of which carries instruction to a point which to the pupil's health and development must prove a…

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Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 September 1871 · page 5

A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of the above institution was held last evening in the reading-room, for the purpose of considering rules as revised by the committee. There were about one hundred gentlemen present…

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Facts About the New South Wales' School, System. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 11

SIR,—The following, which is iny personal experience, will demonstrate the injustice, inconsistencies, contradictions, and useless waste of the public moneys connected with the…

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Windsor School of Arts

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 3

The second lecture in the course for this season, in connection with this institution, was delivered in the hall of the building on Thursday evening, the 31st ultimo, by Alexander…

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The Prussian System of Popular Education. Compulsory Schooling—organization—what Is Taught

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 23

To trace upward the course of a German child, we must begin with the primary school. Here, Undoubtedly, has the system been brought to its featest perfection, as no teachers are admitted to…

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The Prussian System of Popular Education. Compulsory Schooling—organization—what Is Taught

Evening News · Monday 18 September 1871 · page 3

TO trace upward the course of a German child, we must begin with the primary school. Here, undoubtedly, has the system been brought to its greatest perfection, as no teachers are admitted to…

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Public School Teachers. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 September 1871 · page 7

SIR,—The letter in your last issue headed as above contains an expression of the feelings of a large body of men who are doing a work of vast importance—aye, an importance far exceeding that of any other professional body—to the colony…

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The Tourist, The Clarence in 1871. Chatsworth Island, School, &C

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 988

IN previous letters I hare briefly sketched the route over which I travelled. I must now re[?] my steps and refer more particularly to matters of which, as yet, I have said nothing, of cursorily passed over by…

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The Training-school Ship, Vernon

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 5

Has been removed from tne position it so long occupied at the mouth of Woolloomooloo Bay, and is moored alongside Cockatoo Island. The object of this change is to find additional modes of…

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A Visit to This Clarence. Ix.—chatsworth Island School, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 October 1871 · page 2

In previous letters I have briefly sketched the route over which I travelled. I must now retrace my steps and refer more particularly to matters of which, as yet, I have said nothing, or cursorily passed, over by…

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Laying the Foundation-stone of a Public School, Wagga Wagga. (From the Advertiser, October 7.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1871 · page 5

THE ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Public School was performed at 4 o'clock, on Monday afternoon, by his Honor the Chief Justice, Sir Alfred Stephen…

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Chastising a Sunday-school Boy. Served him Right Charge of Assault Against a Vicar

Evening News · Wednesday 11 October 1871 · page 3

AT a special meeting of the Enfield magistrates, the Rev. G. H. Hodson, Vicar of Enfield, appeared to a summons which charged him with unlawfully assaulting Alfred Carter, on Sunday, the 30th of July…

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Chastising a Sunday-school Boy. (From the Daily New, August 7.)

Empire · Thursday 12 October 1871 · page 3

AT a special meeting of the Enfield magistrates, the ev. G. H. Hodson, Vicar of Enfield, appeared to a summons which charged him with unlawfully assaulting Alfred Carter, on Sunday, the 30th of July…

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Parramatta. [From a Correspondent.] Wesleyan Jubilee.—laying Foundation[?] Stone of a New Schoolroom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 October 1871 · page 2

THE interesting ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new schoolroom in Macquarie-street was performed on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, by the Hon. James Byrnes, M.L.A., Minister for Works. About 250 people…

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