Houses
These Houses, in to which the pupils of Tadcaster Grammar School are divided, are as follows:
- Oglethorpe House - Named after Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle and founder of the school in 1557. Green
- Dawson House - Named after Dawson's Girls' School, with which Tadcaster Grammar School was merged. Yellow
- Fairfax House - Named after English Civil War commander-in-chief and alumnus Thomas Fairfax. Blue
- Calcaria House - Named after the Roman name for Tadcaster Red
- Toulston House - Named after school building Toulston Lodge, former residence of Oliver Cromwell. Orange
- Wharfe House - Named after the River Wharfe, which runs through Tadcaster. Purple
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“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)
“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)
“Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when the people eat the stuff they raise, and living in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)