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Schools, 1876

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The School of Indolence Ball

Sydney Punch · Friday 1 September 1876 · page 1

HIS Entertainment took place at the Rooms, Macquarie Street. TOBY went, but Mr…

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The Convent School Or. Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. CHAPTER IV.--(Continued.) Reverend Mothers of the Children

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 3

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…

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Public and Romish Schools at Orange

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 September 1876 · page 9

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…

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The Sydney Ragged Schools

Evening News · Tuesday 5 September 1876 · page 3

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…

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Our Public School System. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1876 · page 6

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…

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Fireside Readings. My School Days

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 19

Still sits the school house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumach grows, And blackberry vines are running…

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Art Notes. Mediaeval Art Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 342

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…

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Sydney Ragged School

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 346

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…

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Sydney Ragged Schools

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 336

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…

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The Convent School; Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. CHAPTER IV.--(Continued.) Reverend Mothers of the Children

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 September 1876 · page 3

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…

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The Bible is the School

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1876 · 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…

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The Bible in Public Schools

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1876 · 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…

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Our Public School System. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 September 1876 · 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…

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Teachers' Superannuation to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 September 1876 · 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…

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Teachers' Superannuation. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 September 1876 · page 6

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…

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The Convent School Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Files. CHAPTER V.--(Continued.) Secret Guardians of the Children

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 September 1876 · page 3

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…

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St. Francis R. C. Sunday School

Evening News · Tuesday 19 September 1876 · page 2

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…

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Sydney Jewish Sabbath School

Evening News · Tuesday 19 September 1876 · 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…

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Our Public School System. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 September 1876 · page 6

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…

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Country Correspondence. Public School Meeting, Ulla Dulla

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 September 1876 · page 9

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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