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Schools, 1913

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School Hygiene

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1913 · page 18

The Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene will be held at Buffalo, N.Y., August 25 to 30, 1913. The three previous congresses have been hold in 1901 at Nuremberg; in 1907…

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Fort-street School Cadets for Camp

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1913 · page 28

The Fort-street School cadets intend to hold a seven days' camp at Richmond, commencing from June 20. The number to be taken is limited to 100, and the cost to each cadet will…

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Helps Discipline in Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 May 1913 · page 5

Mr. Williams, the headmaster of the Boys' High School, Ultimo:—"The discipline of the school helps the cadets, and the discipline of the cadets helps the…

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Old Sydney. The Early Churches — The Story of St. Philips Continued and Concluded—Convicts at Church—The Building of St. James' —Foundation Day Kept Up At St. Philips—Proposal To Build a New Church — Parson Cowper Donates £500— [?] Philips—Their Salaries—A Heavy Gas Bill—A New School In Harrington-street—The Site For a New Church—Where Captain Rossi Lived—St. Luke's In Sussex-street — Capt. Kent

Truth · Sunday 4 May 1913 · page 12

Mr. Commissioner Bigge arrived iu New South Wales on September 25, 1819. He reported on St. Philip's as on Other instructions, and from his report some interesting…

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Schoolboys Visit H.m.a.s. Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

About two hundred boys from the public schools in the metropolitis visited the H.M.A.S. Melbourne at Cockaton island this morning. Thery were in charge of Captains Reddieh and…

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School or Hospital. Deputation to Minister

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

A deputation,consisting of Mr. G. H. Smithers, chairman of the New South Wales Licensing Court, and Messrs. Thomson and willgoss, all property owners on the Berry Estate…

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School Truants

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 6

The public schools are well equipped, and te masters are thoroughly efficient, but the pupils do not attend as often as they should. It appears that on an average one-fifth of the…

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A School of Citizenship

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 6

IN the sense that the boy is father of the man, the cadet may be said to be father of the future citizen soldier. Some such thought may have crosed the minds of the vest…

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Religious Teaching in Schools

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

A deputation from the Committee on Special Religious Instruction in Public Schools awaited on the Minister for Public Instruction. Mr. Carmichael, to urge him to restore to the…

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Still at It. Suffragettes Burn a School. Sufforter Sentenced. London, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 6

Suffragetters burnt the lately-erected wing te Ashley Public School at Aberdeen, the damage being estimated at £500. The authorities have now allowed the…

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Robbery Under Arms. Sunday-school Boy's Lapse. Saw It at a Picture Show

The Sun · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

The robbery under arms sensation at Narrabeen was revived at the Quarter Sessions to-day. George Richard Filby, a youth a little over 16 years old. pleaded guilty to the…

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H.m.a.s. Melbourne. Visit by School Boys. an Interesting Inspection

The Sun · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 7

However much the public of Sydney may have ignored the presence of H.M.A.S. Melbourne in Sydney Harbor, and thus overlooked the historic importance of the first…

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Religion in Schools. Complaints by Clergy. "Country Becoming Materialistic."

The Sun · Monday 5 May 1913 · page 9

Religious instruction in public and high schools of the State was the subject put before the Minister for Education this afternoon by a deputation from the Synod…

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Cruiser Melbourne. Prize Essay for Schools. Stimulating the Interest. an Official Snub

Evening News · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 6

Captain I. E. Silver and officers of H.M.A.S. Melbourne have been so much, impressed with the smart appearance of the public school boys who have visited thier ship, and more…

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High School for Orange

Evening News · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 4

Mr. Carmichael will on Saturday lay the foundation-stone of a new High School building at Orange. This marks an important stage in the development of the State system of…

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Corporal Punishment in Schools

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 4

Goulburn.—under clause 18 of the Education Department regulations dealing with instructions 10 teachers, it is provided that corporal…

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A School Quarterly

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 8

"Woodcourt Chronicle" (which comes from Woodcourt Ladies' College. Dulwich Hill) for April is to hand, and as usual as contains a lot of good…

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British Association. Public High Schools' Soccer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 12

A good league has been established, embracing the principal high schools within the metropolitan and sub-metropolitan areas. The entrants have been graded "A" and "B." "A" grade: Fort-street,…

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"Godless Institutions." Religion and the Schools. Deputation to the Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 5

The members of the committee of special religious instruction in Public schools were received yesterday by the Minister for Public Instruction, Mr. Carmichael…

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"Our Cruiser." the Schoolboys' View. Great Object Lesson. Address by the Captain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 9

One hundred and eighty boys, representing ninety schools of the metropolis, were given a splendid object-lesson in patriotism yesterday…

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