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Schools, 1909

2,788 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 140

The Health of Country School Children

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 6

A letter which we published yesterday, appealing for periodical medical inspection of country school-children, strikingly presented one of the serious disabilities of…

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Australasian Scholars. Successful Students. London, July 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 13

The commissioners of the 1851 exhibition have granted scholarships to Mr. J. A. Gray, of Melbourne; Mr. J. L. Glasson, of Adelaide; and Mr. H. J. Swain, of Sydney…

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Penrith School of Arts New Books

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 5

The following books, purchased from the NEPEAN TIMES Stationery Repository, were added to the above institution's library this week—…

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Schoolroom Suicide. Boy Who Was Tired of Life at at Fourteen

The World's News · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 4

An extraordinary tragedy occurred recently in one of the classrooms of the Blaise Pascal School at Clermont-Ferrand (France). A boy named Neny, 14½years old, blew out…

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School Agriculture

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 9

UNANDERRA.—A party of the upper class boys, under the head teacher, Mr. Rose, visited the Government experimental plots here. Mr. Makin, who is conducting the experiments,…

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Sunday School Lesson. Sunday, July 11th, 1909. Paul's Second Missionary Journey (continued)

The Methodist · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 4

The Philipian Jailer.—Acts 16:16-40. Golden Text.—"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house."—Acts 16:31. I.—Suggestions…

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The Public School Hour. Joseph

The Methodist · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 9

Introduction.—Joseph is one of a trinity, of noble boys of the O.T. The other two are David and Daniel. There is much that is parallel in their…

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The Sunday School This Page is under the auspices of the Council of the Sunday School Department. Edited by Rev. W. Henry Howard. Our Girls and Boys. "A Blazed Track

The Methodist · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 4

Girls and Boys,—In our Now England district, flic large areas of land called "holdings" are gradually being divided into smaller properties, and the countryside becomes more populated than in the "good old…

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Good Health. "To wilful men the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters--SHAKESPEARE. How to Drink Milk

The Star · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 8

Why milk is "distressing" to so many people as they commonly complain lies in the method of drinking it. Milk should never be taken too quickly or too much at one swallow. If a glats of it is…

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Sanitary Science. Important Work in the Schools

The Star · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 31

The fact that several public school teachers have enrolled themselves in the classes of the Sanitation Department at the Technical College, and are noted for their earnestness and…

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Training Schools Foe Women

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 15

A meeting of ladies interested in the establishment of training schools for women took place at the Equitable building yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Edgeworth David outlined her…

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Wetherill Park School of Arts. Official Opening

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 3

A few live spirits in the widely scattered district of Wetherill Park, who I have been battling for a school of arts building fur upwards of throe years,…

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Primary Industries and the Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 July 1909 · page 6

The "Sunday Times" has always been emphatic in expressing the opinion that the people should know more about the splendid country they…

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" Sunday Times " Pictures for Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 July 1909 · page 12

Provisional School, Mirrool, via Temora, June 23, Sir,—I have been removed to this school recently, and as the walls are drearily bare, I would be glad of your set of pictures.—Miss JULIA…

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The School Child's Breakfast

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 4 July 1909 · page 11

It must be remembered that a school child is not only learning, and improving every sense, but is also growing, and it is highly important that the first meal of the day is of…

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Schools' Competition. Second Grade

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 4 July 1909 · page 3

North Annandale defeated pyrmont by 2 goals to 1. For the winners George Barron and Frank M'Pherson scored…

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A School for Anarchists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 July 1909 · page 7

Shyamaji Krishnavarma is a wealthy Hindu, an M.A. of Oxford. He was a member of the English Bar, but was disbarred in May on account of his anarchical writings…

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Letters to Editors. What People Think. School Children's Health

The Star · Monday 5 July 1909 · page 3

"Country Woman," asks the "Daily Telegraph" why the powers that be do not follow their good intentions of treating the eyes and teeth of school children 300 miles from Sydney. Some prompt…

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American Schools. Mr. Board's Impressions. the Industrial Aspect

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 July 1909 · page 9

Mr. Peter Board, M.A., Director of Education in this State, who recently returned from a trip to the United States gave a gathering of touchers, soma of his impressions on Saturday night,…

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Education. the Teachers' Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1909 · page 3

The principal business of the council of the Teachers' Association at Friday evening's meeting was the consideration of the reports of the deputations to the Minister for Public…

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