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convent proper, a fine boarding and day school for seconda1·y
pupils, an orphanage for girls, and St.Joseph's, a primary
school.
However! schCJol accom.mcdat:Lon was still
inadequate and aftel" the forming of the Sacred Heart
parish in 1886 the church was used as a school.
Roll
nwnbers increased and in 1.893 we find three Si
ers of
1.:ercy and J.liss Foote teaclline; in the church some 150
pupils.
In 1895 Sacred Heart Girl's School was opened, in
which girls and boys were taught. until 1913 when with the
opening of
the Vermont Street Schools, the Marist Brothers
too~;: over the boys. In 1929 ·at a cost of £36,000 st.
r.;ary' s boarding and day schools gave ;Jlace to the
present superstructure in Spanish Mission style of
archi tecttu•e so attractively girt \Vi th neat lavvns and
friendly t:r·ees.
The traditions of many generati01l2 of
successful pupils combined with the most modern equipment
for the irnpar•ting of a many sided education by trained
teachers, several of \Yhom are University graduates, are
marked features of st. Mary's College.
The annual successes
of the pupils in University and other public examinations
v.;herein they hold their own with the public schools and
:::alleges of the Doraini on, together with the results which
are achieved by its pupils in the exam.i.nations held by the
two leading London Colleges of 1~usic - Trinity College and
the Associated Board of Music -
continue to give evidence