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Avery House (Frankfort, Indiana)
Avery House may refer to: *Avery House, a dormitory within the House System at the California Institute of Technology * Avery House (Fort Collins, Colorado), a National Register of Historic Places listing in Larimer County, Colorado * Avery House (Griswold, Connecticut) *Ebenezer Avery House, a historic house museum in Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park * Thomas Avery House, East Lyme, Connecticut * Capt. Salem Avery House, Shady Side, Maryland * Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, Morganton, North Carolina * Carlos Avery House, Wellington, Ohio *Avery House (Dayton, Oregon), a National Register of Historic Places listing in Yamhill County, Oregon * Avery House (Frankfort, Indiana), an Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures listing in Frankfort, Indiana See also *Avery Homestead, Ledyard, Connecticut *Avery Farmhouse Avery Farmhouse is a historic home and farm complex located at Duanesburg in Schenectady County, New York. The house was built about 1850 by noted master ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House System At The California Institute Of Technology
The house system is the basis of undergraduate student residence at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Caltech's unique house system is modeled after the residential college system of Oxford and Cambridge in England, although the houses are probably more similar in size and character to the Yale University residential colleges and Harvard University house system. Like a residential college, a house embodies two closely connected concepts: it serves as both a physical building where a majority of its members reside and as the center of social activity for its members. The houses resemble fraternities at other American universities in the shared loyalties they engender. Unlike in fraternities, however, potentially dangerous "rushing" or "pledging" is replaced with two weeks of "Rotation" at the beginning of a student's freshman year, and students generally remain affiliated with one house for the duration of their undergraduate studies. Freshmen have historically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
