AtD translation: nested tables

[Mike Jing]

This seems to make the most sense. Thanks all for replying.


On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 3:45 PM Paul Cray <pmcray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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