Houses
The school is on an expansive campus at the edge of Plumtree town. It is divided is divided into houses:
- Milner House (1911) - purple and black
- Lloyd House (1923) - pink/red
- Grey House (1926) - blue
- Gaul House (1941) - orange/yellow
and a boarding hall Hammond Hall (1976). Hammond Hall is for boys entering their first year of high school and serves as an introduction (for the new boys), to the boarding life and general ethos of the school. The boys 'graduate' to their main boarding houses in their second year. Each house is named after prominent individuals who fostered the school's progress.
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“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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its crumbling, leafy terraces.
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