Houses
- Day Houses
- Blackwater (Girls)
- Craig (Boys)
- Powell (Boys)
- Reeves (Boys)
- Watt (Girls)
- Boarding Houses
- Pennell (Boys)
- Gonville (Boys)
- Wargrave (Boys)
- Nugent (Girls)
- School (Girls)
Many of these houses were donated to the school in wills and named after their benefactors; for example, Powell was given to the college by Stanley Powell.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don’t know what to save.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And this Sappho danced on the grass
and danced and danced and danced.
It was a death dance.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)