old fogey's question

[michael scuffil]

Can someone tell me which Houses now house whom?

[J.R.]

I take it you mean Boys v Girls ?

[Mid A 15]

I believe Leigh Hunt (once the Prep), Barnes, Coleridge and Thornton now house girls, both A and B.

Maine, Lamb, Middleton and Peele, A and B, house boys.

Mrs C, Josh or Great Apple will confirm for sure.

[kerrensimmonds]

And Grecians E and Grecians W are mixed (though inside them the Grecians live in 'pods' - a group of rooms with washing and kitchen facilities - which are either girls or boys)

[michael scuffil]

And was the senior/junior house distinction abolished when the Grecians' houses were set up?

[J.R.]

And Grecians E and Grecians W are mixed (though inside them the Grecians live in 'pods' - a group of rooms with washing and kitchen facilities - which are either girls or boys)

Spoilsports !!!

[ben ashton]

The beginning of the 2nd form-Deps houses was Michaelmas 2000, my year got to be oldest juniors but then had to be youngest seniors!

[Great Plum]

And Grecians E and Grecians W are mixed (though inside them the Grecians live in 'pods' - a group of rooms with washing and kitchen facilities - which are either girls or boys)

I think they should call the Grecians' houses better names...

[englishangel]

I think this was mentioned when we were talking about house names and Kerren put forward the proposal that Grecians East be named for an ex-head master as Grecians West id named after an ex- head mistress.

[kerrensimmonds]

It wasn't me, Mary but I remember the discussion. And it's an accident of geographical orientation that one of the Grecians' residences could be thought to have been named after a former Headmistress at Hertford.....(ho ho!)

[englishangel]

It sounded like the sort of irony you might think of Kerren but the way Munch has been going recently perhaps it was she.

[kerrensimmonds]

I'm sure that if we were to wade back through the various threads on this Forum we would find out who it was and what they said, but............!

[Angela Woodford]

It sounded like the sort of irony you might think of Kerren but the way Munch has been going recently perhaps it was she.

Me? But I've mellowed into a tranquil tolerant person! I forgive all my foes! (Well, all but three of them. No! three more semi-foes too.... Everybody else then.)

There is a certain splendour in naming a House "Grecians West" which contains mixed pods.

Love from Munch

[englishangel]

quod erat demonstrandum (I think)

[kerrensimmonds]

Ermm... OK Mary. But what is the subject of your erudite observation? To what does 'quod' refer......? There could be a number of responses.....