The School of Indolence Ball
HIS Entertainment took place at the Rooms, Macquarie Street. TOBY went, but Mr…
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HIS Entertainment took place at the Rooms, Macquarie Street. TOBY went, but Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He passed through the parlor, ordering Sister Magdalena, the housekeeper, to see her Superior at once to her pallet. There, as the night shadows lengthened over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the thick of the Education controversy attention was drawn on the platform of the League, by Dr. Barry, to the illustration afforded at Orange of the rivalry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Sydney Bagged Schools was held at the Temperance Hall last evening; Mr. J. H. Goodlet, took the chair. The children of the school, who to the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—In your interesting leader of the 26th ultimo, on the public school system of Ontario, the following sentence attracted my special attention—"The inspectors must inspect every school tw[?]ce a year, apportion the provincial…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Still sits the school house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumach grows, And blackberry vines are running…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →IN his preface to Miss A. C. Owen's new work, "The Art Schools of Mediaeval Christendom," Mr. Ruskin remarks that his editorship is no mere compliment to the author, and says, "I hold myself entirely responsible in…
Continued on Trove, page 342 →THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Sydney Ragged Schools was held on Monday at the Temperance Hall. There was a numerous attendance. The chair was occupied by Major Goodlet, who was supported on the platform by his Honor Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 346 →THE annual report of the Sydney Ragged Schools read at the sixteenth annual meeting on Monday showed that the society is in a not altogether satisfactory position from a pecuniary point of view, but…
Continued on Trove, page 336 →After dinner, and an hour or two for rambling in the garden and reading whatever literature the convent possessed--which was little indeed--the pupils were called to the school-room for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Bible holds an honoured place in our public Schools. It is not used as of old, as a lesson book lightly esteemed by children who considered the Study of it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE acknowledgment of this Book as being the standard one of every true-hearted Christian, who would desire his children to have knowledge, cultivating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—"Like political constitutions. educational systems are not made, but grow: and, within brief periods, growth is insensible. Slow, however, as must be any improvement, even that improvement implies the use of means, and among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Of all the great questions which have been agitating the thinking minds ot mo[?]ern days, the subject of education has probably been most widely discussed, not only in this colony but in the neighbouring colonias, and indeed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—As one warmly interested in the education question. I was much gratified in reading a letter in your issue of 12th instant, signed "A Teacher," in which the writer invites attention to a very serious defect in the educational…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We do not accord with hasty statements, to the effect that all priests recognise the mighty lie of Rome, that all nuns wish themselves free, that Rome's fasts and penances are a farce and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual picnic of the teachers and scholars attending the St. Francis Roman Catholic Sunday School was holden at Chowder Bay, on Monday last, the fete was attended by the Very Rev. Dean Sheridan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual examination of pupils and general meeting of the subscribers to the Sydney Jewish Sabbath School, in York-street, took place on Sunday morning in the Masonic Hall, York-street. The body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In my second letter on this subject (Herald, August 31, pago 5), I said, "Not the least of the advantages to be enjoyed by a complete gradation of Public schools, would be the extended and varied culture afforded to the future…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting was held at Mr Pantlin s, "Armstrong Forest," Ulladulla, on Friday night, the 8th instant, to arrange preliminaries to have a public school erected in the neighbourhood, to supersede…
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