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Schools, 1899

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The Vicar and the Sunday School Teacher

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 7

The familiar story of the susceptible vicar and the alluring Sunday school teacher, which has so often been sadly related in courts of law, is this week again before the public…

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The Fort-street School Jubilee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 3

To-night at the Town Hall will take place the first of the functions in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Fort-street Model Public School. The first part will consist of a commemorative ode, illustrating…

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Our Parent Public School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 4

To-day will be made memorable to a large number of our future citizens, and probably to not a few dwellers in divers places under the sun, as the jubilee of one of…

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Football. Schools' Premiership

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 4

The king's School met St. Joseph's College on the furmer's ground on Wenesday. Some seven minutes after starting Slattery got over unopposed. The try at goal was a failure. This was the only score the college made in the…

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Church News. Holy Trinity Sunday School, Dawes Point

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 8

On Tuesday night, through the kindness of the rector, who placed his magic lantern at the disposal of the school, the children were entertained with a series of views of the life of Moses. The attendance…

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Fort-street Model School. the Jubilee Celebrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 8

There was at the Town Hall last night one of those overwhelmingly-large attendances which are seen from time to time on popular occasions. In the present instance the Medel Public School,…

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Scholastic Jubilee. Fort-street Model Public School. A Noteworthy Commemoration

The Australian Star · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 3

No greater success could possibly have been achieved than that which marked the First of the series of celebrations to commemorate the Jubilee of the Fort-street Model Public School…

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Jubilee Celebration. Fort-street School. Sports and Picnic

The Australian Star · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 5

Hundreds of excited little midgets, and many bigger boys and girls, obtained but a s[?]fort shift of sleep last night, longing for the daylight, praying that the weather might be…

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St. Mary's Schools' Fair

The Australian Star · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 6

The fair in aid of St. Mary's Schools was concluded last night, under pleasant auspices, the weather being line and the attendance large. The art union drawings were…

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Public School Gathering

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 7

To-day there is to be a great gathering of children and old pupils of the school on the Sydney Cricket Ground, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school's foundation and of the…

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Good Samaritan Primary School

The Catholic Press · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 14

A grand concert will be given by the pupils of the Good Samaritan Primary School on Tuesday, September 5, in the Guild Hall, Castlereagh street. Front seat…

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The New School at Golden Grove. Ceremony Next

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 15

TOWARDS the end of last week, while the rain was pouring, it was decided to put off the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new school at St. Kieran's, Golden Grove. In the nature of things…

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Fort-street School Jubilee. the Celebration

Evening News · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 6

A beautiful sight was that at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday, and one to be long remembered with pleasure. The occasion was the picnic and sports arranged to celebrate the jubilee of the…

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Schools' Premiership

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 14

The regular series of matches for the Schools' premiership is now finished, with the result that Sydney Grammar School (last year's premiers) and the King's School are equal for first place, each having…

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Fort-street Model School. Jubilee Celebrations. Sports on the Cricket Ground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 10

The Fort-street Model School is an important feature of the scholastic institutions of the colony More than that, it is associated with perhaps the principal portion of the history of the colony. It is…

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The Sunday School International Lesson. Sunday, September 10, 1899. Encouraging the Builders. Haggai ii. 1-9. Golden Text (Haggai ii. 4).—"Be strong for I am with you." The Nations and the Jews

The Methodist · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 8

" After the foundation of the temple had been laid," twelve precious years had been wasted…

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Sunday School Union

The Methodist · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 7

The Secretary of the Sunday School Union gave notice at the last meeting of the council " That at its next meeting he would move that this Union establish…

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Athletics. Public Schools' Athletic Association

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 592

The eleventh annual sports meeting of the above will be held on Friday, September 15, at the Agricultural Society's Grounds. The sports have always constituted a red letter day with school children…

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The National System of Public Education—Jubilee of Fort-street Model Public School. TO-DAY

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 558

ON Observatory Hill, the summit of the high peninsula between Sydney Cove and Darling Harbour, stands "Old Fort-street," the oldest Public school in the colony, and, since its…

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Fort-street School. The Jubilee Sports. The Governor Present

The Australian Star · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 11

The gathering yesterday at the Cricket Ground to witness the sports held in connection with the Jubilee of the Fort-street Public School increased greatly with the advent of…

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