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{{Short description|Staff dining table at some universities}} |
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[[File:The Hall, Merton College, Oxford-geograph-3159217.jpg|thumb|View towards the High Table in the dining hall of [[Merton College, Oxford]]. The lower tables have a mixture of chair and bench seating.]] |
[[File:The Hall, Merton College, Oxford-geograph-3159217.jpg|thumb|View towards the High Table in the dining hall of [[Merton College, Oxford]]. The lower tables have a mixture of chair and bench seating.]] |
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The '''high table''' is a table for the use of [[fellow]]s (members of the [[Senior Common Room]]) and their guests in large university dining halls in |
The '''high table''' is a table for the use of [[fellow]]s (members of the [[Senior Common Room]]) and their guests in large university dining halls in some universities, where the students eat in the main space of the hall at the same time. They remain the norm at [[Oxford University|Oxford]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[Trinity College Dublin|Dublin]] and [[Durham University|Durham]] universities, which are all organized into colleges. Other academic institutions (such as [[University of London]]; [[University of St Andrews]],<ref>[https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/accommodation/ug/residences/stsalvators/ St Salvator's Hall]</ref> [[University of Manchester]], [[University of Bristol]] and St. David's University College in the UK, [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], the [[University of Notre Dame]] in the United States, [[The University of Trinity College]] and [[Massey College]] at the [[University of Toronto]], the [[University of Hong Kong]] and [[St Paul's College, University of Sydney]]) also have high tables. |
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The table is normally at the end of the dining hall on a raised platform, although this is not always the case. Typically, the high table is set across the breadth of the hall, and is thus at right angles to the tables in use by the main body of diners, which stretch along the |
The table is normally at the end of the dining hall on a raised platform, although this is not always the case. Typically, the high table is set across the breadth of the hall, and is thus at right angles to the tables in use by the main body of diners, which stretch along the hall's length. On more formal evening occasions, [[dinner jacket]]s are worn. It is also still common to wear [[academic dress|academic gowns]], at least for dinner. |
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The high table preserves what was the normal style of eating in large houses in the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, when the whole household ate together in one hall, but in segregated and sharply differentiated styles. Traditionally the high table had chairs and the other tables benches, but today many halls have all-chair seating. The food is generally different, often completely so.<ref>[[Roy Strong|Strong, Roy]], ''Feast: A History of Grand Eating'', pp. 102-105, 2002, Jonathan Cape, {{ISBN|0224061380}}</ref> |
The high table preserves what was the normal style of eating in large houses in the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, when the whole household ate together in one hall, but in segregated and sharply differentiated styles. Traditionally the high table had chairs and the other tables benches, but today many halls have all-chair seating. The food is generally different, often completely so.<ref>[[Roy Strong|Strong, Roy]], ''Feast: A History of Grand Eating'', pp. 102-105, 2002, Jonathan Cape, {{ISBN|0224061380}}</ref> |
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{{commons category|Halls of Colleges of Cambridge University}} |
{{commons category|Halls of Colleges of Cambridge University}} |
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* [http://scr.chu.cam.ac.uk/hightables.php High Table] at [[Churchill College, Cambridge]] |
* [http://scr.chu.cam.ac.uk/hightables.php High Table] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528130706/http://scr.chu.cam.ac.uk/hightables.php |date=28 May 2008 }} at [[Churchill College, Cambridge]] |
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* [http://www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/perm/hightable.htm High Table] at [[Princeton University]] |
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/perm/hightable.htm High Table] at [[Princeton University]] |
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Revision as of 02:34, 8 August 2024
The high table is a table for the use of fellows (members of the Senior Common Room) and their guests in large university dining halls in some universities, where the students eat in the main space of the hall at the same time. They remain the norm at Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin and Durham universities, which are all organized into colleges. Other academic institutions (such as University of London; University of St Andrews,[1] University of Manchester, University of Bristol and St. David's University College in the UK, Queen's University, the University of Notre Dame in the United States, The University of Trinity College and Massey College at the University of Toronto, the University of Hong Kong and St Paul's College, University of Sydney) also have high tables.
The table is normally at the end of the dining hall on a raised platform, although this is not always the case. Typically, the high table is set across the breadth of the hall, and is thus at right angles to the tables in use by the main body of diners, which stretch along the hall's length. On more formal evening occasions, dinner jackets are worn. It is also still common to wear academic gowns, at least for dinner.
The high table preserves what was the normal style of eating in large houses in the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, when the whole household ate together in one hall, but in segregated and sharply differentiated styles. Traditionally the high table had chairs and the other tables benches, but today many halls have all-chair seating. The food is generally different, often completely so.[2]
Other bastions of this dining layout include some boarding schools (including the fictional Hogwarts) and the Inns of Court in London.
"High table" is sometimes used figuratively in a variety of ways to suggest things thought to be characteristic of Oxbridge fellows.
References
- ^ St Salvator's Hall
- ^ Strong, Roy, Feast: A History of Grand Eating, pp. 102-105, 2002, Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0224061380
External links
- High Table Archived 28 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine at Churchill College, Cambridge
- High Table at Princeton University
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