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Schools, 1904

2,186 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 110

School Teachers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

The Public Service Board have approved of the transfers of the following teachers to the schools and positions specified in connection with their respective…

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Education in America. Views of an Irish Jesuit. Training of the American Teacher

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 37

The Rev. Thomas A. Finlay, S.J., who was a member of the Mosely Commission recently, gave some interesting information concerning American schools at the annual meeting of…

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Naval Teachers

Evening News · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

The Admiralty have given a substantial concession to the class of teachers for the boys in the Navy. Three of the head schoolmasters are to be made chiefs, and receive pay at…

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Thefts From Public Schools. Two Girls Convicted. Remarkable Evidence

Evening News · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 6

For the past ten or twelve days the pupils and teachers of the Stanmore, Petersham, and Camperdown Public Schools have been thrown into a state of anxiety in consequence of…

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Stealing From Public Schools

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 11

At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Paytne, S.M. two schoolgirls, named Gladys Williams, alias Daisy Wilkie, aged 14, and Kate Arthurson, aged 13, appeared on several charges of stealing children's…

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Sunday School Teaching

The Methodist · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 1

UNDER this heading our correspondent, W.A.M., in last week's issue, raises a question of the first importance to the Christian Church. The…

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The sunday school International Lesson. Sunday, May 8, 1904. WATCHFULNESS. Luke 12 : 35-48. Golden Text (Luke Xii. 37).—"Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching." INTRODUCTION

The Methodist · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 10

Time.—A.D. 29. Place.—Perea, beyond Jordan. The exact place in the journey to Jernsalem where the sermon recorded in…

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Murderers' School. Where Young Criminate Are Trained. Plot to Kill an Old Man

The Australian Star · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

An open-air school for burglars and murderers has been discovered in the Tulleries Gardens, Paris, by two special detectives appointed to watch all suspected persons in that…

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A Timely Gift. Fruit Tress for Schools

The Australian Star · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 11

An offer has been made by Messrs. Vollmer and Vessey, nurserymen, Epping, through Mr. Inspector Finney, to the Minister of Public Instruction, to donate from 200 to 300 fruit…

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The King’s Governesses First Teachers of Royal Ties

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 5

The Queen-Mother of the Netherlands went down to Exeter yesterday from Claremont to pay a visit to Mrs Acland, her old governess. Mrs Acland, when…

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The Convent School Concert

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 4

The popular entertainment given by the pupils at the Parramatta Convent School, in aid of the building fund for the memorial R.C. Presbytery, was repeated…

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Bible in Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 May 1904 · page 1

Teacher: "Who was Joan of Are?" Pupil: "Why—er—Noah's wife."…

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Seditious Misses. Russian School Girls Cheer the Japs

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 1 May 1904 · page 4

The school girls of Russia appear to take an unusual interest (for school girls) in the Eastern struggle. Only a day or two ago the cable announced that "three hundred girls…

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Voice of the People. Our Public School Curriculum

Evening News · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 8

"Plain Bill" writes:-I would like to bring before the notice of those interested-and I have no doubt there are many such-the present public school curriculum. How on earth the…

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Scripture Instruction in State Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 May 1904 · page 6

The frequent conferences between the State Premier and the Bishop of Melbourne with reference to the Scripture instruction referendum was brought to an end to-day, when the…

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Barrier Public Schools' Association. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 7

Mr. D. E. Fraser Inspector of Schools, presided at the Central School on Saturday over the annual meeting of the Barrier Public Schools' Association. There was a large…

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School-boys and the S.g.c

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 4

Sir,—It seems to me rather remarkable that the Sydney Cricket Ground authorities charge school boys who attend football matches the full admission fee…

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Scripture in Victorian Schools. the Coming Referendum. "The Bidding of the Priesthood."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The scripture lessons in schools referendum is likely to be a burning question at the State elections. The Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly…

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Newtown Methodist Sunday-school. Diamond Jubilee

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 10

Sixty year's ago, when Newtown was comparatively a small and insignificant place, a Sundayschool was built in connection with the local Methodist Church. The scholars were few and…

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Theo Schoolroom

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 40

Perhaps, after all, "the schoolroom" is hardly the right heading for this article, because the subject I have in my mind deals with the inhabitants of the schoolroom, rather than with…

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