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Schools, 1890

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Our Public Schools. Forest Lodge Public School

Evening News · Thursday 28 August 1890 · page 2

The site of the Forest Lodge Public School is one of the most picturesque and commanding in the district. Situated on the summit of the hill from…

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Extraordinary Extension of a Strike. a Convent School Boycotted. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Aug. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1890 · page 5

An extraordinary instance of the extension of strike operations is reported from Dublin. The parents of the children attending a large convent school in that…

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FOOTBALL. West Sydney Juniors v. Fort-street School

The Australian Star · Thursday 28 August 1890 · page 6

The above clubs will play at Wentworth Park on Saturday next, under Rugby rules, when the West Sydneys will be represented by—Back, T. Guthrie (captain);…

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Rockdale Public School

The Australian Star · Friday 29 August 1890 · page 3

ON Monday afternoon last the now infant's department of the Superior Public School, Rockdale, was opened by the Minister for Public Instruction. Amongst the visitors…

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New Public Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 August 1890 · page 4

The Minister for Public Instruction, accompanied by Mr. Johnson (Under-Secretary) and Mr. Kemp (architect for schools) visited Woollahra and Mill-hill, Waverley, yesterday. This…

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Catholic Sisters Teaching in Public Schools. a Successful Experiment in America

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 18

EIGHTEEN Sisters of St. Joseph (says the New York IRISH WORLD, July 19) are employed as regular teachers in six public schools in the vicinity of Gallitzin, Pennsylvania. Five of these…

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A Convent School Boycotted. the Coal Strike in Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 16

LONDON, Aug. 26.—The parents of the children attending a large convent school in Dublin, it is is reported, have withdrawn the pupils, the cause being that the runs have purchased their coal…

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Catholic. State Support of Christian Schools. the Secular and the Religious Systems. a Catholic Archbishop Pleads for a Union

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 18

ARCHBISHOP Ireland, of St. Paul's, delivered a remarkable address before the National Educational Association of the United States on July 10. President Canfield said he had the pleasure of…

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Sydney Ragged Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 7

Sir.—I hear there is some talk about doing away with our Ragged Schools, and compelling the children now attending them to enter our Publix Schools. I sincerely hope it may be so, for it has always been a…

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Public School Sports

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 493

The second annual sports meeting in connection with the New South Wales Public Schools Athletic Association was held on 21st inst., on the Cricket Association Ground at Moore Park, and passed off with…

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King’s School v. Newington College

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 2

The first match for the Schools’ Champion Cup was played on Wednesday on the Ashfield ground between the King’s School and Newington College, and resulted in a victory for…

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CABLEGRAMS. The Labor Question. Strikes Everywhere. England, America, Belgium. a Convent School Strikes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 August 1890 · page 11

LONDON, August 22—A project is under consideration by the Dock Laborers' Union to form a company on co-operative principles, for the purpose of loading and…

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Sudney Ragged Schools. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 September 1890 · page 6

Sir,—Permit me to reply to " Reform's " letter on the above subject. 1. "I hear some talk about doing away with the schools, &c." This is news indeed. who is about to abolish them? Surely not tho subscribers…

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The School History

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 September 1890 · page 4

The history of the colony for use in public schools will be issued in about six weeks or two months, in time for the beginning of the next school year. It is in print and has only…

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Amateur Athletics. Sydney Bicycle Club's Footraces. the Cross-country Championship. Rugby Union Sports Meeting. Grammar School Sports. a Fine Quarter by L. H. Morgan—Darlinghurst Doings—Cross-Country Fixtures—The Parramatta Cricket Club Sports, and the Eastern Suburbs Fixture—Items of Interest from Everywhere

Referee · Wednesday 3 September 1890 · page 3

On Saturday last the Sydney Bicycle Club gave a couple of flat race handicaps, and although in neither case was the entry particularly large runners turned out in force…

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School of Arts Debating Society

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 September 1890 · page 5

THE Sydney School of Arts Debating Club discussed the present labor strike and its aims on Monday evening last. A vast majority of the members and public were…

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Our Public Schools. KINDERGARTEN

Evening News · Friday 5 September 1890 · page 2

A perusal of the reports of the Department of Public Instruction for the last few years will show that the department has been by no means slow in its trial and…

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The Parramatta School of Arts. to the Editor of the Mercury

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 6 September 1890 · page 1

SIR,—The above institution has recently been indebted to you on several occasions for your advocacy of its claims. One of your latest references, however, whilst…

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Sydney Grammar School Sports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 September 1890 · page 3

The seventeenth annuil sports meeting the Sydney Grammar School was held on the Association Cricket Ground on Saturday afternoon. The weather was fine, though dull, and the attendance was good, great interest…

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Amateur Athletics. The Cross-Country Championship. a Great Contest Expected. Who Will Win. The Grammar School Sports—Rugby Union Athletic Carnival—The Darlinghurst Harriers' Championship—Parramatta Cricket Club Sports—Eastern Suburbs items—Metropolitan Mems—They Sydney Harriers' Harbor Excursion—And the Latest Athletic News from Everywhere

Referee · Wednesday 10 September 1890 · page 3

There wore two important items on Saturday last, when the Grammar School sports were brought off, and the Darlinghurst Harriers ran their club championship. I will…

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