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Schools, 1928

3,867 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 194

"AMERICANISATION" U.S. Teachers for Aust. Science Delegate's Fears Hobart

The Sun · Saturday 21 January 1928 · page 8

"There is danger that if we introduce a number of forceful American teachers into the Commonwealth, we will take a step towards the…

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Schoolboy Howlers

The Sun · Sunday 22 January 1928 · page 2

Sir Walter Scott wrote "Quentin Durward," "Ivanhoe," and "Emulsion" Michael Angelo painted the selling of the cistern chapel…

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Seven Acres for High Schools Big Sites Needed

Evening News · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 9

THE MINISTER for Education, Mr. Drummond stated to-day that high school should be erected on areas of not less than seven acres…

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New School Burnt Culcairn

Evening News · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 9

The new public school building at Morven, which cost £850, was destroyed by fire during the week-end. Residents. put up a hard fight to save the old…

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Speech by Dr. Kelly. "Down with State Schools."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 16

Archbishop Kelly, in opening large additions to the Christian Brothers' College at Strathfield, yesterday said that they were moulding the minds and souls of children. Roman…

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Compulsory School Age. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 17

Sir,—I can hardly imagine your correspondent H. Wilshire is serious when he or she interprets my words "schoolmasters quite wrongly assume that education is…

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Roman Catholic School. Opened by Papal Delegate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 17

Archbishop Cattan[?], the Papal Delegate, yesterday blessed and opened the new Roman Catholic school at Stanmore. The new school, which forms an addition…

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Seven Acres High School Sites

The Sun · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 13

At least seven acres of land will be required for the sites of any new high schools. That information was given by the…

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Anti-religious Schools "Down with Them" Says Dr. Kelly College Additions

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 5

Archbishop Kelly yesterday opened large additions to the Christian Brothers' College. at Strathfield. The college is the administrative…

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"Building Up Fine Traditions" Blessing New Stanmore School

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 2

"In this new country it is our province to build up the fine traditions which in architecture belong to Europe, and the land of the Renaissance," said…

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Two-up School. Twenty-two Men Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 4

Twenty-two men appeared before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, charged with having, on Saturday night, been found in a common gaming-house…

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High School. Proposal for Strathfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 11

The Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) yesterday informed a deputation from the Concord Council and the Concord and Mortlake Parents and Citizens' Association…

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Teachers Transferred

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 6

Junee, Tuesday.--Extensive changes are being made in the Junee District School staff. Miss Press has been transferred to Surry Hills, Miss Cook…

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Back to School with a Rush

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 5

There appear to be no reluctance on the part of these Fort Street scholarson their way to school on the first day after the holidays…

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Making a Start at School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 5

School was not such a serious business to these youngsters yesterday. They made a start in the kindergarten class…

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Soap and Water Monday -- First Day Back at School

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 1

A SIGN OF THE TIMES. -- Many a juvenile face, grubby with the marks of holiday games, underwent a…

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Teacher, Carpenter, Wheeler

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 8

Sir,—In his latest letter (E.N. 20/1/28) "Shame the Government" says that be has no wish to [?] the wheeler or any honest worker. Seeing that In his first letter there was an Implied slight to…

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Many Changes in Teaching Staff School Transfers

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 4

A BIG list of alterations In the tepching staff has been Issued by the Education Department. It Includes:-…

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Australian Schoolboys Visit Ceylon Cricket and Sight-seeing

Referee · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 11

FOURTEEN boys from St. Peter's College, Adelaide, under the direction of the Rev. K. J. Bickersteth, the headmaster, and Mr. W. J. Sinclair, comprise…

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Footballers and Cricketers in the Making Plunkett-street Public School

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 25 January 1928 · page 42

JUDGING by the success thai has attended the doings of the Plunkett-street Public School boys in the field, it is reasonable to suppose that they will…

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