This institution is intended to do honour to the memory of a noble life and to provide a high-class education for the youth of the colony, based upon decidedly Christian, but unsectarian, principles. ...
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The Pictorial Australian (Adelaide, SA : 1885 - 1895), Sat 1 Jan 1887, Page 6
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