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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 hall's length. On more
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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
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today many halls have all-chair seating. The food is generally different, often completely so.
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Other bastions of this dining layout include some boarding schools (including the fictional
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universities, which are all organized into colleges. Other academic institutions (such as
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High Table
Bar table

Merton College, Oxford
fellows
Senior Common Room
Oxford
Cambridge
Dublin
Durham
University of London
University of St Andrews
University of Manchester
University of Bristol
Queen's University
University of Notre Dame
The University of Trinity College
Massey College
University of Toronto
University of Hong Kong
St Paul's College, University of Sydney
dinner jackets
academic gowns
Hogwarts
Inns of Court
Oxbridge

Fitzwilliam College
University of Cambridge
St Salvator's Hall

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