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283 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 15
WE quote the following useful hints from the School Beard Chronicle:—"Having been asked, on more than one occasion, to furnish our correspondents with the details of a scheme respecting the course of needlework which might be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On went the child in white and delicate array, beside the Sister in rough black garb, thus symbolizing the course of Rome's proselyte, from the first fair allurements to the days of living…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN last Saturday's Herald appeared a letter from the Rev. John Dixon, minister of the Church of England at Wickham, one of the rising suburbs, of the important…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I cannot agree with you that this is the time, or that the Sydney Herald is the place for fulfilling the promise which I made in my letter to Mr. Robertson. I have long ago fulfilled that promise in the place and at the time which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MONDAY, the 7th August, was signal[?]ed at Gosford by an event of some local importance, for on that day Mr Reave, P.M., the Chairman of the Local Board, laid the cornerstone of the now buildings for the use of the Public school in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Permit me to correct a misrepresentation of the school controversy which has sometimes been accepted, and which is deliberately adopted in the "Explanation" of that very a[?]able Combination which so exclusively "love…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE is undoubtedly a strong feeling at the present time that our educational machinery is not working as it should. Vague insinuations, dictated by sectarian prejudice or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grace and Adelaide loved each other sincerely, but there was a sort of rivalry between them that made each jealous and watchful lest the other should do or have something better…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE are many persons who are willing to acknowlege the Bible as a lamp fit to be set on a parlour table or placed in an entry or drawing-room, but they do…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 7th August, Mr. E. Reove, the Police Magistrate of Brisbane Water (as chairman of the local board of the Goslord Public School, laid the foundationstone of the new school house at Goslord. There was a numerous attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—Mr. Taylor should not attribute to me what I did not say. Certainly Dr. Barry never either asserted or "re[?]erted the oft-repeated and oft-denied accusation that the League is the only body which is careful for the education…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the old school-book, in its dusty nook, With a tearful eye I gaze; Come down, old friend, for an hour we'll spend In talking of bygone days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Father Murphy made it a point to quote Scripture to the judge. He did not say that he felt free to use olive oil because it is given to make a man's face to shine. It was Father…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great multitude of the children who come to our public schools have no religious instruction at home. Some are orphans, and some more than orphans, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN this structure we have a fair specimen of the school architecture which the Education Act has been the means of introducing into the sister colony. Some of them are really handsome structures in the Gothic style, creditable to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →James Kenney was brought up on remand at the Central Police Court on Friday afternoon, before Mr. Smart, on the charge of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, belonging to the U.S. Minstrels, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The Yass petition, Mr. Windeyer's electioneering speech, leaders in the Herald, correspondence in the Herald, with editoral note, conversations with gentlemen highly qualified to appraise the present condition and future…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The nun at last said, "My child, what are you thinking of?" "Saint Cecelia, is there any such verse as this?--'The blood of Jesus Christ His Son…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I HAVE always been strongly in favour of secular education, in the sense of education without theology ; but I must confess I have been no lass seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—From my stand-point outside our State school system, and from my practical experience in the school-room, as a pupil beginning about 1827, as a pupil[?]t acher in 1835, and as assistant master in 1841, I am able to…
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