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Schools, 1905

2,188 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 110

Public School Teachers' Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1905 · page 3

A meeting of the council of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers' Association took place on Friday evening last at 8 Spring-street. The council confirmed the provisional…

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Country News. Alleged Gambling School. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1905 · page 8

The police at 2 o'clock this morning raided a gambling school. Seventeen men were arrested. One man was charged with assisting in the management of a common gaming…

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Arncliffe Public School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1905 · page 4

Recognising the importance of up-to-date education, the residents of Arncliffe have been anxiously agitating for increased facilities at their public school. The names of 600 children…

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N.s.w. Public School Teachers' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 3

At the last meeting of the council of the Public School Teachers' Association, the provisional arrangements that were made by the hon. secretary with Professor Wood, M.A., for a…

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Buildings and Works. New Enterpeises. a Model Public School Building

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 3

There is being erected at Wickham, near Newcastle, at a cost of several thousand pounds, a Public school building which has been designed on lines suggested in the…

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Shipload of School Boys

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 4

Great Britain has been visited by a ship called the Young America, which represents an educational experiment on the part of the United States of considerable novelty. The young…

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Teachers' Qualifications. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 3

Sir,--Among the bearded traditions of our Education Department "was" one that teachers should only be allowed to show that they possessed certain literary qualifications after they…

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Training of Teachers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 5

The educational renascence which has been such a marked feature of the close of the last and the beginning of the present century ha[?], as was but natural, aroused a new interest in…

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Amusing School Story

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1905 · page 423

In a certain village school, the other day, says the "Liverpool Post and Mercury," the following problem was put before the children by one of H.M. inspectors:—"Suppose in…

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Late Cable News. Received This Morning. The Russian Revolt. Hangings at Warsaw. Schoolboys Shot Dead. Trouble at Pernau

Evening News · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday, 2.40 p.m.—Forty-six men have been hanged in the citadel at Warsaw, Poland, for participating in the recent street disturbances…

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Schoolboys Shot. a Saratoff Tragedy. LONDON, Wednesday, 2.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 1

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that sixteen schoolboys were shot dead during the disturbances at Saratoff, in Eastern Russia…

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Sunday School Picnic

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 6

The annual picnic of the Paddington Branch Sunday School in connection with the Sydney City Mission was held at Clontarf yesterday. The arrangements were well…

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Russia. Barbarous Repression Forty-six Men Hanged. Schoolboys Shot Dead. London, Feb. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 7

Forty-six men have been hanged in the citauel at Warsaw for participating in street disturbances. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the…

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The Russian Revolt. Forty-six Men Hanged at Warsaw. Schoolboys Shot at Saratoff

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 February 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon The Russian authorities have banged 40 man in the citadel at Warsaw for participating in street disturbances…

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Notes and Notions. VIII.—Why don't Sunday Scholars go to Church?

The Methodist · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 4

The question may seem an irony; no doubt it is. But it is an irony only too well based in fact. Burk the question how one may, the bare, un­varnished fact remains that a large proportion of…

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St. Mary's High School Reunion

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 24

A meeting of the ex-students of St. Mary's High school was held on Monday evening, when the election of officers, drafting of a constitution, and other preliminary matters…

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Schoolboy of Fourteen and His Master. Fattest of Fat Boys

The World's News · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 6

Charles Watts, of Woodchurch, Eng., is only 14, but he is 6ft. high, and weighs 23 stone. He is thus nearly double the weight of an ordinary man of 30 of his stature. His legs are…

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Pupil Teachers' Grievances. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 14

Sir,—The only difference in the standards for the first-class pupil teachers is—the work set down in the old was certainly impossible; in the new it is nearly possible. The only…

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Training of Teachers. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 7

Sir,—The article in your issue of the 15th inst on the above subject leads me to ask room in your columns for a few words of criticism concerning the Training College at…

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Sunday School Lesson. Sunday, February 26, 1905 by Rev. W. H. HOWARD. The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

The Methodist · Saturday 18 February 1905 · page 4

GOLDEN TEXTH "I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven."—John 6:51. Historical Setting.—Time.—Just before the Passover, April, A. D. 29, early in the third year of…

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