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Schools, 1914

2,683 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 135

Parramatta High School. The Foundation Stone Laid. Visit of the Minister the Advance of Education and the Value of Public Interest

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 11

On Friday afternoon the Minister for Education (the Hon. Campbell Carmichael, M.L. A.) visited Parramatta and performed the chief official act In connection with…

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From High School to University

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 2

If any further evidence were needed to show that it is possible for any bush boy or girl with the necessary ability to reach the University, it…

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Two Distinct Schools

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 April 1914 · page 10

Harold Bauer, the great piano virtuoso, who is shortly visiting Australia, is often, compared to Paderewski, much to their own mutual amusement. No one knows better than they that they…

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Home Rule or Not. School of Arts Debating Club

Evening News · Monday 13 April 1914 · page 10

At a meet Ids of the Sydney School of Arts Debating Club an interesting debate took place on the question of whether the British Government was justified in passing the Home…

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Aviation Schools. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1914 · page 12

Colonel W. F. Everett, commanding officer of the 5th Light Horse, who has just completed nine months at the British Flying School, Salisbury, England, delivered a lecture…

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The Teachers. Federal Union Suggested. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1914 · page 10

The Public School Teachers' Union held its Easter conference on Saturday. A number of resolutions were adopted, among which was the following, proposed by Mr. Darke and…

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Subsided School

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 8

Gloucester: I am enclosing an application form for founding a subsidised school that I prevailed for you from the Department of [?] that I think you [?]…

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A Subsidised School. Reported to Have too Small a Building

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 3

Blayney (N.S.W.) asks me [?] it is the intention of the Department of Public Instruction to discontinue the subsidy in connection with a certain…

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Country Education Questions. No School Paddook. For the Children's Horses

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 3

Bonshaw tells me that there is no accomodation for the paddocking of [?] in connection with the public school in the district, and, in…

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Boys at School. Chat with a Master. Australian and English Types. Value of Sports and Drill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 10

An honoured name among the "old boys" of the several schools with which he has been associated is that of the Rev. Edwin Bean. He is a master of the sympathetic, cultured type,…

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Teachers' Poor Pay. Unattractive Profession. Thousands Without Living Wage. London, Tuesday Morning

The Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1914 · page 9

Speaking at the Teachers' Conference, yesterday, the president, Mr. W. P. Steer, declared that the dearth of teachers, was due to the unattractiveness of the profession,…

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Coogee Public School. Alleged Unhealthy Conditions

Evening News · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 10

The sanitary inspector of Randwick reported to the council, meeting that he had recently visited Coogee public School, Belmore-road and found [?] of a structural Character…

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The Schools. Duties of the Parents. Director's Views

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 14

The relation in which parents' associations stand towards the State education system was defined by the Director of Education, Mr. P. Board, last night. Mr. Board was the…

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Sanitation at Schools

The Sun · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 1

The inefficiency of the sanitary arrangements at many suburban and country public schools formed the subject of a discussion at the conference of the Parents and…

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Irrigation Model. Retained for School Boys

The Sun · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 1

The Minister for Lands and Irrigation, Mr. Trefle, has arranged for the Commissioner for Irrigation to retain for the next fortnight at least the model of an irrigation farm…

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Women in the Schools. Demand Equality with Men. London, Wednesday Morning

The Sun · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 8

At the Teachers' Conference yesterday Miss H. L. Coxon proposed a motion advocating that women teachers should receive salaries equal to those of the male teachers…

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Coogee School. Insanitary Conditions

The Sun · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 8

Nuisances of a structural character at the Coogee Public School have been discovered by the Randwick Council's sanitary inspector, who reported on the subject to last…

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Great Public Schools Championship

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 16

The Great Public Schools Championship, always a keenly contested and interest-producing event, is to be decided on Wednesday, April 23. The umpire's boat leaves Fort Macquarie at…

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The Schools. Retardation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 7

Many very exhaustive columns of figures are issued by the department in the acting-chief inspector's report for 1913, to show how retardation of pupils compares in 1913 with the…

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Ragtime Dispute. Tango Teacher's Claim. Case Against Burlington Cafe. Trouble Over a Hall

Evening News · Thursday 16 April 1914 · page 6

Judge Murray had occasion to ask, in the District Court this morning what a "rag" as. "It is a dance—a 'ragtime,'he was…

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