High Table

High Table

At Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham colleges - and other, more traditional, academic institutions - High Table is a table for the use of fellows (members of the Senior Common Room) and their guests. The table is normally on a raised platform and at the end of the dining hall, although not always. On more formal evening occasions, dinner jackets are worn. It is also normal to wear academic gowns.

See also

* Formal Hall

External links

* [http://scr.chu.cam.ac.uk/hightables.php High Table] at Churchill College, Cambridge
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~gradcol/perm/hightable.htm High Table] at Princeton University


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