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Schools, 1905

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Summer School for Sydney. Preparing Teachers for the New Syllabus. Special Course in Botany and Geology

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

As the result of a suggestion by Mr. D. J. Cooper, the superintendent of the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Public Instruction, a summer school was yesterday…

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Farming Schools in Germany

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 4

The Education Commissioners, in their latest report, refer to the system of "Farming Schools" Which prevail in Germany. In these schools, in addition to good theoretical…

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A Schoolboy's Idea of Languages

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 7

A schoolboy in the "Windsor Magazine" says: "Languages, whether dead or alive, are a beastly nuisance. You never know where you are with them, because they are always turning out to…

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Oberammergau in 1905. Preparations for "The School of the Cross."

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 7

The Alpine peasants of Oberammergau are already preparing for a great influx of European and American visitors in the summer of next year, says the "Daily Mail "…

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The Midsummer School Vacation. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 8

Sir,--Touching the question of granting an extension of leave to the annual school midsummer vacation, apart from the beneficial rest to the children at this period of the year the extra…

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Schoolboys on Holiday Raid an Ice-cream Cart. a Lesson in Strategy

Evening News · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 5

The heavy-footed policeman had turned the corner of a side street in Darlinghurst this morning, when a gay tooting preceded the advent of a trim and somewhat gaudy cart. The…

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Swimming. Crack Swimmers Travel Fast. Hobson and the Eighty Yards Best. World's 60yds Record Broken. Rugiana Lad Wickham Pushes Cecil Healy Hard. Schoolboy Champion Murray in Fine Shape—The Wang[?] Carnival

Referee · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 4

LAST Wednesday I published an interview which the London "Sportsman" had with an American swimmer in the Old Country, and wherein that…

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Queensland Teachers' Union. the New Syllabus. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 10

The seventeenth annual conference of the Queensland Teachers' Union was opened at the Brisbane Technical College Hall to-day. Delegates from various…

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Public Schools on the Barrier

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 91

From the latest report to hand from Inspector W. E. Fraser, who is a most enthusiastic worker in the cause of education, we learn that the Broken Hill section of the Wagga Wagga district was formed at the…

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The Summer School. Theory and Practice Combined

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 9

The new educational organisation known as the Summer School, which is intended to provide school teachers in country districts with an opportunity of widening their acquaintance with…

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The Midsummer School Vacation. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 10

Sir—I don't know how many school-teacher are among your correspondents, but it seems as if there is a goodly proportion, the burden of their pleadings appearing to be "one" for…

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Teachers' Summer School

Evening News · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 3

Between forty and fifty of the public school teachers, who are attending the summer school at the Technical College, visited the Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon, and passed a…

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Teachers' Summer School. Practical Demonstrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Clunles Ross, B.Sc., continued hi[?] course of instruction on nature study as applied to botany, at the Technical College, Ultimo, yesterday forenoon. There was a good…

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New High School at Chats-wood. Opened by the Cardinal. the Wonderful Life of Cathe-rine M'auley

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 22

St. Catherine's new High School, Chats-wood, which is to be conducted by the Sister's of Mercy, who already have charge of the parochial schools, was opened and blessed on…

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The Coadjutor-archbishop's Sermons. " Secularism—The Primary School."

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 20

His Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop, Most Rev. Dr. Kelly, preached to a large congregation at St. Benedict's at the evening devotions on Sunday. The subject of his…

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Queensland Teachers' Union. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 5

The teachers' conference was concluded to-day. Mr. A. St. Ledger, editor of the "Queensland Education Journal," delivered a lecture on the subject of the points of contrast…

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The Summer School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 9

The classes of the new Summer School were again largely attended yesterday, the visiting teachers showing a keen interest in the lectures. During the afternoon a visit was paid to the…

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Anaemic School Teachers. Departmental Inquiry

Evening News · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 5

The prevalence of anaemia among the younger lady teachers in the Education Department, employed in country districts of Victoria, is a question to which the Minister for Education…

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Novel Boarding School. Open-air Teaching for Consumptives

Evening News · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 2

Open-air treatment for tubercular disease is the newest fashion everywhere, and a boy's school. The Lodge, Sparsholt, near Winchester (England), is about to be opened for boys with…

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School Teachees' Holidays

Evening News · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 3

"A Parent" writes:—It is talked about very much that the public school teachers are asking for an extension of holidays. If this is the case, surely it is very inconsiderate of the…

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