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Schools, 1887

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The School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 November 1887 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts was held on Thursday. The president (Mr. James Dalgarno) occupied the chair, aud there were also…

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Congregational Union. Meeting of the Sunday-schools

Evening News · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Sunday-school Union, in connection with the sittings of the Congregational Union, was held last Monday evening in the Pitt-street church. Dr. Jefferis…

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N. S. W. Congregational Sunday School Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 5

The annual meeting of the New South Wales Congregational Sunday School Union was held in the Pitt-street Church last evening, under the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Jefferis. There was a good attendance, amongst those…

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Sydney School of Arts. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 5

Sir,—As a member of the Sydney School of Arts of some years' standing, and having been previously connected with institutions with similar objects in London, kindly permit me in your columns to give my experience…

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The Sydney Medical School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 9

The medical school in connection with the Sydney University was initiated some five years ago with the insignificant number of four students, but it has grown so well that there are now more than 50, including one…

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Congregational Union. Meeting of the Sunday-school Union

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 6

In connection with the sittings of the union the annual meeting of the Sunday-school Union was held in the Pitt-street Church last evening. There was a large attendance, the chair being…

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Sickness in the Public Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1887 · page 19

INFANTILE diseases—more particularly measles—are spreading to an alarming extent amongst the children attending the Public schools in the city and suburbs. The children are absent in very…

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The Centenary and the Public Schools. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 November 1887 · page 10

Sir,--In order that all children attending the public schools in the country districts of the colony may share in the celebration of the centenary of their native land, I venture to…

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West Maitland School of Arts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 November 1887 · page 5

West Maitland,Saturday .--The west Maitland School of Arts has undergone some extensive alterations, costing about decided to The committee have now decided to soiree…

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Sunday School Picnic

Evening News · Thursday 17 November 1887 · page 4

A very pleasant picnic, consisting of the combined Catholic schools of Paddington and Woollahra, took place at Chowder yesterday. Children to the number of nearly 800 were conveyed by…

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Technical Instruction in the Victorian State Schools. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 November 1887 · page 8

The desirableness of introducing technical instruction into the State schools was recently impressed upon the Government, and the Technical Commission has undertaken to formulate a scheme for the consideration…

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Lantern Lecture in St. John's Schoolroom

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1887 · page 2

The above lecture took place an St. Jonn's Schoolroom on Wednesday, November 16th, by Mr. T. R. Robinson, entitled: "Scenes in many lands." The…

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St. John's Sunday School Picnic

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1887 · page 2

The first picnic in connection with the above, took place at Porn Bay on Wednesday, November 16th. The children met in the Sunday School at a quarter to nine and…

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The Forty-second Anniversary off Darling Street Wesleyan Sunday School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1887 · page 5

The above took place on Sunday, when the services were well attended, considering the very unpleasant weather, that of the evening being the best. The…

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St. Leonards School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 November 1887 · page 5

According to announcements made in our advertising columns'this week, it will have been soon that Mrs. Fairfax, of Admiralty House, St. Leonards, will to-morrow afternoon open a conversazione and carnival at the School…

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Sydney University Examinations. a Group of Successful Public School Boys. (See portraits on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 19

Of all the educational institutions represented at the junior University examinations recently held throughout the colony, none came through the ordeal with more satisfactory results than the…

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Truant Schools in England. (By an Occasional Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 15

Those who have interested themselves in the problem of national education, more especially under compulsory surroundings, hardly need to be told that one of the greatest difficulties to be encountered is the proper…

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A Worthy Australian Schoolmaster. the Rev. G. F. MACARTHUR

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 28

The Rev. George Fairfowl Macarthur, who lately retired from the headmastership of the King's School, Parramatta, is a son of the late Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, who was a nephew…

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Conversazione, St. Leonards School of Arts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 November 1887 · page 4

A conversazione, in aid of the building fund and library of the St. Leonards School of Arts, was opened in that institution on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Fairfax, of Admiralty House, St. Leonards. The attendance was good,…

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St. Leonards School of Arts. Conversazione and Carnival

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 November 1887 · page 3

Despite the unfortunate circumstance of a wet afternoon a large number of ladies and gentlemen resident of St. Leonards assembled at the school of arts in that suburb on Saturday…

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