Houses
Pupils at the school belong to one of four houses:
- Lauriston (green, after the school's address, Lauriston Place; named after Lauriston Castle)
- Greyfriars (white, named after the adjacent Greyfriars Kirk)
- Raeburn (red, after a famous former pupil, Henry Raeburn)
- Castle (blue, after Edinburgh Castle to the north)
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palaces built upon the sand.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)