I'm not sure I ever discerned any house characteristics - I've a vague feeling Simon were strong at sports in my time, but I imagine that was chance. I think girls were assigned alphabetically (ie first/fifth/ninth etc to Herford, second/sixth/tenth to Lejeune etc, rather than whole blocks of the alphabet) though I can't swear to it.
An interesting fact is that when I attended a 120th anniversary reunion last year, with a group of four or five women from my year, we discovered that each of us could instantly identify the house of anyone from that year who came up in conversation. I'd no idea it was so deeply engrained.
(And actually, thinking it over, it wasn't. We could identify a lot of the houses, but the one thing we knew about everyone without thinking was whether they were from the X form or Y form, which makes more sense because we were distinct for five years.)
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Date: 2012-01-23 12:06 pm (UTC)An interesting fact is that when I attended a 120th anniversary reunion last year, with a group of four or five women from my year, we discovered that each of us could instantly identify the house of anyone from that year who came up in conversation. I'd no idea it was so deeply engrained.
(And actually, thinking it over, it wasn't. We could identify a lot of the houses, but the one thing we knew about everyone without thinking was whether they were from the X form or Y form, which makes more sense because we were distinct for five years.)