AtD translation: nested tables

[Paul Cray]

Clearly here nested tables refers to the the rows of tables in the dining
hall rather than to the familiar domestic item of smaller tables slotting
underneath larger ones, perhaps with a suggestion of uthe undergraduates
nestling underneath the dons at high table, which was probably raised above
them on a dias. It certainly was at St Anne's in the 1980s.

Paul

On Sat, 22 May 2021 at 15:13, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> some other tidbits:
>
> there are somewhat anal formal wear requirements at Oxbridge high table at
> Cambridge when students eat with senior fellows ('regulations')
> some of the  colleges in Cambridge have been known even to this day to have
> less than savory menus (lots of drink though). at one time you were out of
> luck if you were a vegetarian. I can imagine what the menus were like in
> the 19th century. Things are  a bit better today
> here's Girton's dining hall:
> https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/conferencing/conferences/rooms/great-hall.
> I've eaten here. It's a lovely space (though I was there for lunch and not
> jam packed for a formal dinner).
> Girton also is one of the more lovely colleges--its grounds are quite
> beautiful. it's a bit out of the center of town and not packed together
> like the more traditional colleges like Trinity, St John's and King's.
>
> rich
>
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 4:31 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 498.7-11   Meanwhile Yashmeen was finding Girton increasingly tiresome,
> the
> > epidemic idiocy, the impossible dress regulations, not to mention the
> food,
> > unimproved by the saturated blonde light that descended into Hall through
> > the high arch of overhead panes, bathing the nested tables and the linen
> > and chattering girls.
> >
> > What are "nested tables"?
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