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Schools, 1879

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School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 August 1879 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

"The Sorcerer" as performed by Kelly and Leon's opera company, at the School of Arts, has settled into good working order, and the audience on Saturday night—a large one—seemed to enjoy it very thoroughly. Of Mr…

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Primary School Education. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 August 1879 · page 3

"The question of education is the great religious question of the day.--Pastoral Letter. Sir,--From the above expression of the Romish bishops, taken in connection with their claim to be the…

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Correspondence. Presbyterian Clergymen and Public Schools. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 August 1879 · page 3

Sir,--The writer in your column, "Public Opinion," on Saturday stated that " Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Wesleyans have in this very colony exhausted their respective vocabularies to find epithets…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 August 1879 · page 3

There was but a poor attendance to witness "The Sorcerer" at the School of Arts last night, and the piece does not promise to rival "Pinafore" in its length of run. It is difficult to account for this,…

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Presbyterian Clergymen and Public Schools. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 August 1879 · page 3

Sir,—If it be necessary to reply to the letter of Dr. Steel in to-day's issue, I would say that my information on this subject has not reached me through statistics nor reports of the General Assembly, but…

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Catholic Teachers. To the Editor

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 3

SIR,—It seems strange to me that none of your correspondents have pointed out the gross inconsistency of the late pastoral in this respect. It calls the education taught at the public schools godless, so…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 3

Messrs. Kelly and Leon, and their finely-trained and capitally-assorted company, repeated .Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's new comic opera, "The .Sorcerer," to a good audience last night, at the…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 August 1879 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

A moderate amount of patronage was accorded to the Kelly and Leon troupe, at the School of Arts, last night, when another representation of "The Sorcerer" was given. The picco docs not seem to have hit the popular taste so well…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 5

The "Sorcerer" performance at the School of Arts still draws a fair audience, and as heretofore the programme runs smoothly. The public seem still strongly attracted by this interesting performance,…

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The Public Schools. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 7

Sir,--The idea seems to be current, and I doubtt not but it gains strength from so little notice being taken of it, that in the Catholic Denominational schools the scholars are not taught the elements…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 August 1879 · page 3

Messrs. Kelly and Leon have enhanced the attraction of the programme they have lately been performing at the School of Arts by the production of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan's very popular…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1879 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

"The Sorcerer," and "Trial by Jury," continue to draw fair houses to the School of Arts, and these comic operas are weil received by the audiences that frequent this place of amusement…

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Presbyterian Sunday School Teachers' Tea Meeting and Conference

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 August 1879 · page 3

A social gathering of the Sabbath School teachers in connection with the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was field last evening in the Protestant Hall, at half-past 6'clock…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 August 1879 · page 3

Last evening Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera " The Sorcerer" drew a good house at the School of Arts. Throughout tho entertainment ran merrily, and concluded with " Trial by Jury,"…

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How to Empty Public Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1879 · page 3

Sir,—If Dr. Vaughan wants to convince us that we ought to withdraw our children from Public schools, he must write his Pastorals over again, and wrte them quite different from what they are. If he can only show that…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 August 1879 · page 3

Notwithstanding the powerful counter-attraction presented by the fancy ball in the Exhibition Building there was a pretty good attendance in the above place of amusement best night, when "The…

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School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 August 1879 · page 6

There was a limited attendance at the School of Arts last night, when "The Sorcerer" and "Trial by Jury" were performed by the Kelly and Leon troupe, with quite the wonted success. On Saturday night it is announced that…

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