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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is it with supposedly elite colleges trying to model their campus life after a children's book series? I can't imagine most college kids, at least the cool ones, thinking that such a system is anything other than lame. If you're picturing a bunch of kids running around campus repping their "house," then unless it's a total geek school, your perception is likely way off. Things were so much simpler in my day when the freshmen all got thrown into random dorms with random roommates and then the cool ones joined frats. The attempt by college administrators to reclaim control over the social climate is just another symptom (or perhaps a cause) of the never-ending adolescence being manifested by this generation.[/quote] I think placing college/university students in "houses" predates the Harry Potter series. For example, at Harvard, the system was created in the 1930s, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College#House_system [/quote]
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