The Houses
The House system is a feature common to Public Schools in India especially Christian run schools (based on an equivalent system in England).
The four houses are named after the patron saints of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom:
- St. Andrew of Scotland - colour blue
- St. David of Wales - colour yellow
- St. George of England - colour red
- St. Patrick of Northern Ireland -colour green
The houses compete with one another in academics, games, track and field sports, aquatics, arts, literary, dramatic and music competitions.
Read more about this topic: St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore
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“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and
its crumbling, leafy terraces.
There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue.
There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting flies”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)