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Schools, 1874

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Parliamentary Return Respecting Provisional Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1874 · page 791

IN compliance with the express terms of a motion brought forward by Mr. Stewart in the Legislative Assembly, it was ordered, on the 24th March last, that copies of all official documents in the department of the Council of…

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Roman Catholic School Books. (Concluded.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 June 1874 · page 3

WE take up now the Treatise on Modern Geography, prepared, say the Christian Brothers, for the "institution over which they preside, and for the purpose of counteracting the malignant…

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"Critic Criticised. the Teachers', Not Their Journal's, Critic. To the Editor of the Empire

Evening News · Monday 22 June 1874 · page 4

SIR,—The teachers of New South Wales have had a doctor amongst them. The "medicine man" has used his lancet pretty freely, and has probed the incision till the wound has smarted rather sorely…

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"Critic" Criticised. the Teachers', Not Their Journal's, Critic. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 22 June 1874 · page 3

SIR,—The teachers of New South Wales have had a doctor amongst them. The "medicine man" has used his lancet pretty freely, and has probed the incision till the wound has smarted rather sorely…

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National Training School for Cookery. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1874 · page 6

AT the conclusion of the lectures on cookery at the International Exhibition of last year, those of the audience who took a real interest in, the subject used to be requested to write their names in…

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Denominational Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1874 · page 6

SIR,—Your answer to my letter of the 16th instant, published by you on the 19th, in which you so confidently assert that "your facts and figures were absolutely correct," when you said that the average…

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Free Schools. (From the London Examiner.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 June 1874 · page 3

IN the early stage of the controversy concerning the opening of the old Universities to Dissenters, almost the sole topic used by the popular advocates for the removal of restriction was the equal…

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Review. "Nursery Rhymes to Suit the Times." Adapted for the Use of Primary Schools and Dedicated to the Council of Education

Sydney Punch · Friday 26 June 1874 · page 7

Testimonials received among others:-- "Ought to be used in every school and sung on every race-course."--Sir H. R. "Display a charming simplicity and disinterestedness."--Sir A. S…

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The Public School Teachers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 11

THE public has begun to discover that the Public school teachers are not quite the very superior and intelligent and cultivated body that it at first supposed. They have…

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The Inspector's Report on the Convent School at Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 5

THE Very Rev. P. Dunne, of Goulburn, in a letter printed in the local papers in reference to strictures passed on the children in the Catholic school says:—…

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The Journal of Primary Education and Denominational Schools. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 2

SIR,—May 1 request the favour of your inserting the subjoined letter, which was, I believe, approved by a majority of the committee, but declined by the editor of the journal of Primary…

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The "Herald" and Denominational Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 June 1874 · page 8

WE proved last week that the action of the Council of Education, in regard to the small denominational schools at which the average attendance had, generally from…

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Church and School Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1874 · page 5

THE settlement of the Church and School Lands question,—involving as it does the still larger subject of civil and religious equality,—appears just now as a cloud upon the horizon little bigger…

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"Critic" Versus the Teachers Association. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 1 July 1874 · page 4

SIR,—The last letter of your correspondent "Critic" has remained unanswered for several days, possibly because the vigour with which he calls for the disgrace and dismissal of one unlucky opponent has…

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Public[?]schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1874 · page 3

SIR,—The twenty-third section of the Public Schools A[?] of 1866 dealares that "no[?] mon[?] shall be appropriated under this Act in sid [?] du[?]ding or repairing school premises unless the [?] of such premises shall be vested for…

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Provisional and Half-time Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 July 1874 · page 3

SIR,—In the report of the Council of Education on the Certified Denominational Schools for 1873, I observe that reports on twelve provisional and fourteen half-time schools in the Newcastle district are appended by the…

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"Critic" Versus the Teachers' Association. To the Editor

Empire · Wednesday 1 July 1874 · page 4

SIR,—The last leter of your correspondnet "Critic" has remained unanswered forserval days, possibly because the vigour with which he calls for the disgrace and dismissal of one unlucky opponent has…

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Supply of Teachers. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1874 · page 3

SIR,—From what is said on this subject in the Report of the Council of Education for 1873, it is evident that the Training Department at the Fort-street Model School is insufficient for the training of teachers…

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Public Schools.—teachers' Fees. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 July 1874 · page 3

SIR,—Two letters have lately appeared in priat, representing that in the schools referred to, but which are not named, higher fees are exacted from some parents than from others. Or perhaps the more accurate way of stating the complaint…

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The Marist Brothers' Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 7

ON Tuesday evening the Marist Brothers held their second annual entertainment and distribu turn of prizes in St. Patrick's Hall…

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