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Sirs--In alluding to the scholarships awarded at the recent high school examinations you state in your issue of Thursday last that "these scholarships --five for boys and live for girls--are open to all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--The final report of the Education Commission has been presented to the Acting-Governor. The report deals exhaustively with the present system of education and contains…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Kindly favour me with space for a.remarks on religious teaching." This question has raised such variety of debate among all classes that one would think every pro and con.was exhausted; but,no—one…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →AN influential deputation repretenting the Church, of England, Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Congregational bodies waited…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Last evening, at the Congregational Church, Pitt street, the first of a, course of three lectures was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Jefferis. The lectures are on "Religious Education in Public Schools." The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday evening Mr. R. Atkinson Price, the hon, sec. of the presented with a testimonial in recognition of his valuable services to the club in his official…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Bishop Barry, in a letter to the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, has at considerable length given to the public his reasons for teaching "religion" in the State schools. In that letter he has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The regular monthly meeting of the committee was held on Thursday evening. In the absence of the President, Mr Vice- president Teece took the chair. After the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—The great difficulty in all controversy is the difficulty of getting even honest disputants to see accurately, not merely the merits of the case, on which there must be difference of opinion, but the facts of the case, on which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The people of Lambton may congratulate themselves on the fact of having got a capital teacher in their midst in the person of Mr. John Cusack, lately appointed as master of the public school at Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—In your issue of Saturday the Bishop of Sydney, writing from memory, tries to make clear to your renders the exact position taken up by the School Bourel for London with regard to religious instruction in Public schools. In a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Thursday,--A deputation of printers waited on the Minister for Education, urging that the department should get school books printed in the colony, and not at home as at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Another friend has come to the rescue of P.M.,who may be considered a friend indeed, for he has thrown up the sponge for him, and made a partial reparation to the calumniated…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →At the usual weekly meeting of the School of Arts Debating Club, on Monday evening last, Mr. P. J. Gandon, president of the club, presiding, the following question was warmly discussed:—That…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following able and instinctive letter appeared in the S. M. Herald of Tuesday. The importance of the subject, apart from the merit of the letter itself, afford ample reasons for its…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--A large and influential deputation, consisting of Dr. Kennion, Anglican Bishop, and the leaders of the various other denominations, excepting Roman Catholics and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →However much the opinions of some may have chanced with regard to the present system of public education, the Roman Catholic Church authorities do not appear in any way to have chanced their ground…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--The dictum of the sage of the last century (Dr Johnson), "Train up a child in the way it should go," is sadly ignored in this so-called liberal age. Children are now, I may say, allowed to grow up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The usual weekly meeting of the School of Arts Debating Club was h[?]ld on Monday evening in the lecture hall attached to the School of Arts, in Pitt[?]street. The chair was occupied by Mr. P. J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Pitt-street Congregational Church, on Sunday evening the Rev. J. Jefferis, LL.B., delivered the second of the series of three lectures upon "Religious Education in State Schools." The attendance…
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