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548 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 28
Sir,—It will be interesting to see if any good will result from the correspondence in your valuable paper in reference to the method ot teaching, music in our public schools. That some change is badly wanted is painfuooy patent to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I write in order to make known a complaint, through the columns of your paper, on behalf of the people of the Foxground, a country village in the muncipal district of Gerringong.The people are my parishioners, and they…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT may sound paradoxical, but it is nevertheless true, that with the disciples of the Oxford Tract School 1 we have no manner of controversy. Their principles, logical and ethical…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation consisting of Mr H. Stephen, Chairman of the Board of Trastees ; Mr A. Cape, vice-chairman; Mr G. Knox, and Mr Catlett, secretary, waited upon the Minister for Education…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Messrs. M. H. Stephen (chairman of trustees), A. J. Cape (vice-chairman), G. Knox, and J. H. Catlett (secretary) waited on the Minister for Education, the Hong. G. H. Reid, yesterday, to ask for an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—Your sub-leader in the Herald of the 27th instant, taken together with a letter signed "Parent" in a previous issue, has interested many of your readers, and as I represent a "quiver full" of young Australians,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The friends of Mr. J. J. Callaghan, for many years head teacher in St. John's denominational school, entertained him at a banquet at the Royal Hotel last night previous to his departure to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, March 5.—The importance of having Australian geography and history taught in the Public Schools of the United Kingdom, and of having' a general knowledge of the resources of tee, by the Royal Colonial Institute. It was pointed out to Mr. Mundella that the institute with the object of encouraging teaching in such subjects, had offered prizes to be awarded for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colonial Institute has represented to the Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, M.P., vice-president of the committee of Council on Education, the necessity for teaching…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THOUGH Tuesday's debate on the subject of schools of agriculture and model farms may doubtless serve some useful purpose in pressing these matters on the attention both of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The question submitted for discussion at the meeting of the club on Monday evening, was as follows:—"That our constitution be amended, so as to admit of the plebiscite where a given number of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Eight or nine years ago the colony was threatened with the less of its best teachers by reason of the inducements to leave us held out to them by the neighbouring colonies. The series…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Meantime, one thing is clear. The much boasted unity of the Church-- that unity which Mr. Gladstone vaunts, and which Mr. Newman sorrowfully laments is not to be found…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, introduced by Mr Humphery, M.P., and Dr Tarrant, M.P., waited upon the hon. the Minister for Education at 3 p.m. yesterday in reference to the establishment of a public school…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A LECTURE dealing with the above subject, especially in its phases as a popular educator and a home. influence, was delivered in the Council. Chambers on Tuesday evening last by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to advert to some of the letters which from time to time have appeared in your paper relative to the real or supposed grievances of teachers under the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →LONDON, March 5.—The importance of having Australian geography and history taught in the Public Schools of the United Kingdom, and of having a general knowledge of the resources of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IT is hard to say how far it would be possible to carry out the proposal to establish agricultural schools and model farms in this colony by the unassisted efforts of the Government. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The annual gathering in connection with the Presbyterian Sabbath Schools, held under the auspicies of the General Assembly, took place in St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street, on Saturday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Three letters and one sub-leader in your columns on the subject of school holidays will have brought into prominence a topic which crops up periodically, like the discussion upon the utility of classical studies, and which,…
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