The Rhodes Scholars at Oxford
In recent weeks says the "Empire Magazine" this heading has been quite a common one in the pages of society papers, and a corresponding amount of misleading nonsense has…
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The Position Op Sixth Class Pupils
Under the new regulations, it is necessary for a pupil to hold a qualifying certificate to secure admission to a high school. At the recent examination, however, it was announced that it was not compulsory for sixth and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →All for Love. Schoolboys Quarrel and Fight a Duel
BERLIN, Tuesday Evening.—A duel presenting somewhat sensational features took place at Detmold, the capital of the German principality of Lippe-Detmold, the contestants being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Schools. Coramba
Mr. E. A. M'Farlane was presented with a travelling bag by the residents of the district on his removal to the Dubbo school…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Travelling School-house
The buiding was moved six miles or so in the Booligal district, and now within its kindly walls a goodly number of young Australians are getting a part of their preparation for manhood and womanhood…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →The Schools. Raising the Wind
Scarcely a conference goes by that come teacher does not rise in his place to speak a few loud words about the system of holding entertainments in order to supplement the school equipment. The school concert probably dates…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Queensland Teachers' Union. Annual Conference Opens
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The delegates attending the annual conference of the Queensland Teachers' Union were tendered a civic welcome at the Town-hall this morning by the Mayor of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →School of Instruction. for Prospective Instructors
A school of instruction will be held at Albury from February 1 to July 10 (being the third) for the purpose of instructing candidates for the instructional stuff of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schools of Arts
The intrinsic value of the School of Arts in a country town is beyond question, for it is the only source upon which the townspeople can draw for their literature. These…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →In France's Godless Schools. What is Taught a Non-catholic's Indictment
We hour little Catholic nows from France nowadays, but that must not be taken to mean that Government persecution has ceased; only that when carried out quietly it is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →State Education in Queensland. Comments by Bishop Duhig. Unjust Treatment of Catholic Pupil Teachers
Our Rockhampton correspondent approached Bishop Duhig as to whether he hud anything to say on the recent debate in the Queensland Legislative Council on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Schoolboy Duellists. Quarrel Over a Girl. Berlin, Jan. 9
Owing to a quarrel over a girl, aged 13, two schoolboys, aged 17, fought a duel with pistols in a wood at Detmold. One was wounded in the chest, and he is in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wagga Experiment Farm School. Vacancies for Studen[?]s
Officials of the Department of Agriculture report that there are still a few vacancies at the Wagga Experiment Farm school. Full space was booked, but the withdrawal of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Teaching Teachers the Goose
Those photographs were taken at the Public School Teachers' Summer School Camp at the Agricultural Ground, where about 70 school teachers are qualifying for the Defence Department certificate as instructors in physical training. What they are now learning will be applied to the compulsory training in the schools of boys between 12 and 14 years of age, as a preliminary to their entrance into the ranks of the Citizen Army (or Navy) of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trade School for Girls
Last month London celebrated an event of economic value and interest--the opening of a trade school for girls. Previous to this, near the Borough Polytechnic in Belvedere-place,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sweet Thirteen. Causes a Schoolboy Duel
BERLIN, Tuesday Evening.--Two schoolboys, aged 17, at Detmeld, in Northern Germany, quarrelled over a girl of 13 years, with whoso charms they were smitten, and, adjoining to a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Soil School Agriculture. Results at Kangaroo Valley
Good experimental work is being done in connection with school agriculture. For instance, Mr. Godfrey (cacher of Upper Kangaroo River Public School), who is an enthusiastic disciple…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dancing in a School
Capertee writes:—A building at one time used as a public school, owned by the Government and erected on Crown lands, was removed, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Most Ideal School in the World
It's a rather startling reflection on our alleged educational superiority that a negro school. initiated by a negro, and wherein the teacher are…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Kensington Cottages. Tramway and School Accommodation
Arrangements have been made for the Tramways Advisory Board to visit the site of Mr. Dacey's housing scheme at Kensington to-day (Friday), in order to consider the question of a…
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