Houses
The students are divided into four houses, each named after one of the school's founding members. They are Copleston (gold, motto "Duty Before Self"), Westcott (red, motto "Work Is Worship"), Cotton (green, motto "Never Despair") and Lefroy (blue, motto "Love Conquers All"). They are named after bishops of the Anglican Church in India. Competition between the houses takes place in the form of interhouse activities like quizzing, debating, athletics, drama, and elocution, as also the Monday morning uniform inspection. Meritorious houses are awarded house points and the house with the most points at the end of the year wins the Cockhouse cup, which was instituted following a gift from the RAF after the school buildings were used as barracks during World War II.There is one house master and one house mistress in each house.
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Nothing will be left white but here a birch,
And there a clump of houses with a church.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)