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The committee of the St. Leonards School of Arts, North Sydney, have prepared their forty-eighth annual report and it shows that the affairs of the institution are more satisfactory that at the close of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The first grade cricket competition was resumed on Friday, and some great surprises were sprung. The most striking was the collapse of Fort-street, playing against Paddington. Paddington ran up 116. L. Cubitc…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →As previously stated, the Great Public Schools competition does not start as customary after the New Year. Most boys leave school for good at the close of the year. So the authorities thought it a better test of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →While everyone known that something is being done at various public schools in the direction of lessons in practical agriculture and gardening, comparatively few are aware of the extent to which these subjects are dealt with, generally after the proper school hours are over, in many districts the grateful soil and fair rainfall make the work pleasureable; while in others, owing to more or less droughty conditions, or a hungry soil, it requires a very great deal of enthusiasm, so discouraging are the conditions. Most of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →There was a great roll up on the part of the lads ot T.K.S. on Tuesday morning, when the Rev. P. S. Waddy commenced his headmastership. The numbers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Not satisfied with their decisive defeat in 1904, when a majority of 26,000 declared against tampering with a cardinal principle of the Education Act of 1872—the secular…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The handsome silver cup presented by Mr. E. O'Farrell, father of the good old game in Australia, will be played for at St. Josepe's College, Hunter's Hill, on October 5, 7, and…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The progress of St. Bede[?] has been so quiet and unostentatious that it came as a surprise even to its best friends when the students carried off the highest honours in the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →I assert that the moral tone of many of the graduates of the Catholic University at Washington is deplorable. Their ruling pontiff is Sir John Barley-corn, their high…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—At a meeting of teachers at the Queen's Hall on Friday night it was decided to form an Assistant Teachers' Association. But there is not the slightest doubt that a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A conference of inspectors was held at the Department of Public instruction With but few exceptions, all the members of the inspectorial staff were present. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,--At the risk of being importunate, I solicit the publicity of your columns in order that the public may know the treatment--or, rather, the want of it--that the country teacher receives…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The committee of the Willoughby School of Arts has secured temporary premises in Victoria-avenue for the reading-room and library, and every effort will be made to make both of these up to date. The movement to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Ex-Teacher" (Kiama) writes:—Like many others, I was at the Berry National Show, and after many years of teaching under the Department of Public Instruction, I still retain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss Allanby has opened a delightful school for girls down at Rose Bay. The terms are moderated, and Miss Allanby, who comes from Scone, is an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Lady Mayoress (Mrs. Thos. Hughes) presided at a meeting of ladies in the vestibule of the Town-hall yesterday afternoon, which was called for the purpose of discussing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A proposal is under consideration, for starting another series of Rural Camp Schools on the lines of those that were so successful in the Hunter River district. The new course will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Lady Teacher: "Tommy Brown, you had belter go out and wash your face." Two minutes later: "Tommy, you've…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. W. Turner presided at the 18th annual meeting of the Public Schools' Amateur Athletic Association, held on Friday night, at the Girls' High School, Castlereagh-st., Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Polish papers describe a very practical method adopted by a Polish nobleman to bring home to certain influential friends the reality of the feeling represented by the school strike…
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