Civics in the Schools
Mr. Carmichael (Minister for Public instruction) some time ago offered a prize of £10 for the best essay from teachers of the teaching of civics in primary schools. The essays were…
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An Illustration in Point. Where Cooking Taught at School Came in Useful
To this question I should say yes, because in whatever station of life a girl may be situated. It would be well for her to know how to cook. It is not only interesting to the girls…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Discussions for MEN & Women. Inmost Heart Confidences of Men and Women Readers of the Globe. Should Cooking Lessons Be Compulsory for Girls at School? No! But More Attention Should Be Paid to It in Technical Colleges
A knowledge of cookery is certainly one of the most useful things the average girl can possibly acquire. But, nowadays, such a wide field of opportunity and activity has been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A School Museum
Negotiations are foot between the German imperial and the State. Government for the foundation of a great School Museum. The object of the School Museum is to concentrate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The School and the Insect. The Study of Insect Life is Curious, Fascinating, Instructive, and Infinitely Valuable. Teachers should endeavor, by popular methods, to make the most of their opportunities for enlightening the child mind, so that the children will
Nature study has established for itself a strong position in the present day school syllabus. The day of the old and generally tiresome object lesson has passed…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →School of Instruction
A school of instruction in musketry for second lieutenants color-sergeants, and sergeants of the 28th Battalion (Redfern) will be held at headquarters, Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Sydney High School
The Sydney High School companies intend malting a determined bid for the cadet shooting championship this year, and are already hard at work…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Fort Street School
A parade of about 300 junior cadets from the Port-street Corps was held in Centennial Park on Friday afternoon, under Major Parsonage, and Lieuts. Mentgomerie, Osborne, James, and…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →"A Brass Button Triumph." Miss Muriel Starr on the Marama. Queen of the Poker School. "Do they rag?"
Miss Muriel Starr asked the question of Mr. Fred Niblo in the J. C. Williamson offices yesterday. She had just arrived by the Marama, and goes on tonight by train to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ROWING. Victorian Schools' Race. MELBOURNE
The annual rowing contest between crews from the Great Public Schools of Victoria was held today. The result was:--Wesley College, 1: Scotch College, 2; Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Law of Macmoses. Fun in the New Hebrides. Native Teachers and the Bible
Native Presbyterians of the New Hebrides are alleged to be taking the law of Moses very seriously, and to be enforcing the precepts inf the Bible, by irregular means, on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →New High School. The First in the Country. ORANGE
Today was a red-letter day educationally in Orange, the special occasion being the unveiling of the foundation-stone at the new High School building by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anglo-french Entente. Cross Visits of School Children. London, Sunday Evening
Eighty London Country Council school children are having a [?] for they have been taken on a visit to [?]. Simultaneously a number of French schoolboys…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Secondary Education. High School Opened. Mr. Carmichael at Orange. Orange
Saturday was quite a gala day in Orange on the occasion of the unveiling of the foundation-stone of the Orange High School, the first established in any country town…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Study of Literature. Professor at Boys' High School
Professor MacCallum, of Sydney University, addressed the boys of the High School at Ultimo to-day on. "The Study of Literature." The lecture was the outcome of an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"A Wide Road." to the University Doors. High School for Orange
ORANGE, Saturday.--The Minister for Public Instruction (Mr. Carmichael) unveiled the foundation stone of the new high School here this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Religion in the Schools. "Ringbarked Christianity." Dr. O'reilly's Severe Comments
BATHURST, Sunday.--Speaking at a Catholic function last night, Very Rev. M. J. O'Reilly, president of St. Stanislaus College, referred, in reply to some recent criticism, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Conveyance Subsidies for Pupils
Quirindi.—The Minister for Public Instruction, having had under consideration a report on the matter, has approved of a "conveyance subsidy"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hacked to Bits. a German Horror. Police Make Ghastly Discovery. Mutilated Schoolboy's Remains. Berlin, Monday Evening
The police today, to different parts of the city, made two ghastly discoveries, which indicate that a murder of a particularly [?]dish nature has been perpetrated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Rural Camp School
The second session of the rural camp school opened at Windsor on Wednesday, with 160 boys and thirteen masters. The organising officer (Mr…
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