A Schoolboy on Corns
Corns are of two kinds—vegetable and animal. Vegetable corns grew in rows, and animal corn grows on toes. There are several kinds of corns; there is the unicorn, capricorn, corn dodgers, field…
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The Convent School; Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. Part Third. Showing How Rome's Children Rebelled Against Her. Chapter Iii. a Dying Actor
While Lilly was coming back to the Convent of the Immaculate Heart to die, her cousin Grace, over whom more beneficent stars seemed to shine, was returning full of life and health to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Darwinianism ; or, the Schoolboy's Lament
THE locust calls out, with a joyous shout, From the midst of the blue-gum tree, Aud gives never a fret about Tare and Tret, Division, or Rule of Three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association
THE annual meeting of this Association was held on Saturday, 33rd December, at the Model Public School, fort-street. Mr. R. Johnson, Inspector of Schools in the Sydney district, occupied the chair. THe Chairman in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Advance of Primary Schools
The first campaign of the "League" virtually won the great battle of liberal and national education here. The people were indoctrinated with the idea so deeply that, even…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Convent School; Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. Part Third. Showing How Rome's Children Rebelled Against Her. Chapter III.--(Continued.) a Dying Actor
Grace remained behind at the boarding-place to gather up Adelaide's possessions, and to send them to the convent with Lucy. All was done at last,--it was four o'clock--Lucy had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Teachers' Mutual Insurance Association
THE annual meeting of this Association was held on Saturday, 23rd December, at the Model Public School, Fort-street. Mr. E. Johnson, Inspector of Schools in the Sydney district, occupied the chair. The Chairman in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schoolboy's English. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The want of a liberal education is not always to be deplored. That misfortune (as some might regard it) has been the salvation of your correspondent "H. W." A liberal education would have made him that loathsome thing—[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Abolition of Denominational Schools
THE following is a copy of the Bi[?] introduced into the Legislative Assemby by Mr. Buchanan, on the 10th instant, to amend the Public Sohools Act of 1866:- It being desirable to amend the Public Schools Act of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Convent School; Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. Part Third Showing How Rome's Children Rebelled Against Her. Chapter Iv.-- (Continued.) Lilly's Flight
I pause-- she had not gone from the grasp of Rome alone-- Grace also had gone, and the Missouri Sister, and Mrs. Mora, and Ann, and her brother ; and Lorette and Adelaide had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sanitary Condition of the Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In the report of the school inspectors for the Sydney district, as given in the report of the Council of Education for 1875-6, at page 102, there occurs the following serious statement:—" The 39 existing public schools afford…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guildford Public School
THE ceremony of opening the Guildford Public school took place on Wednesday afternoon[?] at half-past 3. Guildford is a village on the Dog Trap Road, about three miles from Parramatta, and three-quarters of a mile from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Convent School; Or, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. Part Third. Showing Now Rome's Children Rebelled Against Her. Chapter V. Lilly's Death.-- the Two Prisoners
Mr. Richard, if Miss Lilly lives past twelve o'clock, she'll live till, the turn of the night, when folks is most likely to die. She'll slip, off at twelve or four, sir. So said Hannah to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schools
My statement with regard to the working of the English Act of 1876; and the probable result of the working of certain clauses, is illustrated in a far clearer way, by the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Catholic and English Schools
The Catholics seem destined to be a great disturbing force in all educational movements that aim at the elevation of the people. In our own country, in spite of the ingenious (but not in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Public school Watson's Bay
The foundation-stone of a public school at Watson's Bay was laid on Saturday afternoon. The [?] was to have performed by the hon. John Robertson, Colonial Secretary, but as the Interoclonial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Public School, Watson's Bay
ON Saturday afternoon, the foundation-stone of a Public school building at Watson's Bay was laid by [?] John Davies, M.L.A. The ceremony was to have been per formed by the Hon. John Robertson, Colonial Secretary, but at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The School Board Election
If the conflicting sentiments of Clericalism and Liberalism, which divide French opinion into two opposite camps, sharply defined and mutually irreconcilable, and to which the Ministerial crisis just…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British and Colonial Schools of Medicine. (From the Colonies, November 11.)
DURING the past few years there has been in the United Kingdom a growing conviction that incompetency as well as quackery in medicine exists to an enormous extent, and that very decisive efforts should…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Convent School ; OR, Cloister Spiders and Protestant Flies. Part Third. Showing How Rome's Children Rebelled Against Her. Chapter V.-- (Continued). Lilly's Death.-- the Two Prisoners
As Grace sat, her face hidden in her hands, weeping bitterly, Mother Ignatia stood near her, and in a low voice repeated several forms of prayer. At last Grace looked up. "Mother…
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