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Schools, 1915

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High School Bursaries

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1915 · page 2

The Bursary Hoard is to meet on Tuesday afternoon to allot the bursaries awarded on the results of the recent qualifying certificate examination. It is expected that the list will…

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Women Teachers and War. Children's Kitchen Fund

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1915 · page 4

The public school teachers met again at the Y.W.C.A. rooms yesterday, when it was decided that circulars should be sent to school teachers throughout the State asking…

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Fighting Like a Man. Schoolgirl's Heroism. London, Sunday Morning

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 5

The Czar has awarded a Kielf schoolgirl the St. George Cross for conspicuous bravery. Fighting in the trenches like a man, she was thrice wounded before she was discovered…

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What Is Wrong with the High Schools? to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1915 · page 5

Sir, -- Can any reader of your columns inform me what is wrong with our high schools? The qualifying certificate seems to be distributed almost indiscriminately, but when the scholar…

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Sydney School of Arts. the New Officers

Evening News · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 4

Mr. Wm. Reld (president) presided at the annual meeting of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, held last night at the institution in Pitt-street, City. There was a large…

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Haberfield Public School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 4

In connection with the Haberfield Public School a new building was officially opened last week. The building is a two-story brick structure, with state roof, containing…

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Sydney School of Arts.- an Indignant President

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 11

The 82nd annual meeting of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held last night, the president, Mr. W. Reid, in the chair. The president referred to the deaths of…

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Schoolboy Shot. a Man Arrested

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 8

MELBOURNE; Monday.—As the result of a shooting case yesterday at Burnley. Frank Wallace, photographer, was arrested and charged with having shot, Robert J. Clark (13),…

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Sydney School of Arts. Motion of Censure Defeated

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1915 · page 9

The Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts has a deficit of over £53. This caused some comment at the annual meeting last night, but the chairman explained that the Department of Public…

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New Katoomba School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 12

Mr. Carmichael, Minister for Education, will open a new school building at Katoomba this morning. The new school is constructed of brick, with a slate roof, and consists of a…

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Suburban and Country. Albury Trades School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 14

Invalid Cookery.—Pass: Lucy Chub[?], Mary B. Celquhoun, May L. Bennett, Hannah Ferguson. Freehand Drawing.—Stage 1.—Pass: Elizabeth O[?] Hill, Ethel [?]. Squire, Bessie B. Berry…

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Aviators School. Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 5

Colonel Legge invites applications from officers desiring to attend the course of instruction at the Central Flying School, Werribee, from March 1 to May 29. It is intended to…

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Re-classification of Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 14

It was the practice of the department some years ago to raise and lower the class of schools spasmodically. Frequently schools were raised, in class as soon as they managed to…

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What Is Wrong with the High Schools? to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 7

Sir, -- In your issue of the 8th instant "Parent" asks the above question. With your permission I will endeavor to answer the question. The Department of Public Instruction has for…

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Women Teachers and the War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 14

The women teachers held a meeting on Saturday morning in connection with the proposal to donate a travelling kitchen. The women teachers are making an appeal to all schools…

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The Schools. Superannuation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 14

As far the Legislative Assembly is concerned, the Superannuation Bill is safe. It will now go to "another place," where the last measure was done to death. It is confidently expected,…

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Katoomba School

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 18

Mr. Carmichael, Minister for Educations, will open a new school building at Katoomba this morning. The now school is constructed of brick, with a state roof, and consists of a…

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School of Instruction for Officers -- Infantry and Light Horse Sections

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 31

Light Horse officers. Infantry officers. No 16 School of Instruction for officers was recently held at Liverpool. Colonel White was the chief instructor, while Major Holman had charge of the Light Horse section and Captain Blake of the Infantry section…

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Notes on Education In Our Schools. Teachers are invited to seek information on any question relating to their school work. Correspondence will be treated confidentially.—ED. C.P.] Examination Results. the Intermediate. Better Late Than Never

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 12

In the list of successful candidates in the intermediate published last week the name of Mary Josephine McDonagh did not appear, and yet this pupil from the College of…

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City Bursaries. Secondary Schools. The Successful Candidates

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 25

At a meeting of the Bursary Endowment Board on Tuesday afternoon the allotment of 300 bursaries, tenable at State high schools, and registered secondary schools, was…

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