Editing Hall (section)

===Collegiate halls===

[[File:Haverfordfounders.jpg|thumb|Founders Hall at [[Haverford College]] in Pennsylvania]]
Many institutions and buildings at colleges and [[university|universities]] are formally titled "_______ Hall", typically being named after the person who [[Financial endowment|endowed]] it, for example, [[King's Hall, Cambridge]]. Others, such as [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]], commemorate respected people. Between these in age, [[Nassau Hall]] at [[Princeton University]] began as the single building of the then [[college]]. In medieval origin, these were the halls in which the members of the university lived together during term time. In many cases, some aspect of this community remains.

Some of these institutions are titled "Hall" instead of "College" because at the time of their foundation they were not recognised as colleges (in some cases because their foundation predated the existence of colleges) and did not have the appropriate [[Royal Charter]]. Examples at the [[University of Oxford]] are:

* [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]]
* Hart Hall (now [[Hertford College, Oxford|Hertford College]])
* [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Lady Margaret Hall]]
* The (currently six) [[Permanent private hall]]s.

In colleges of the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], the term "Hall" is also used for the dining hall for students, with [[High Table]] at one end for fellows. Typically, at "[[Formal Hall]]", [[academic regalia|gowns]] are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for "informal Hall" they are not. The medieval collegiate dining hall, with a dais for the high table at the upper end and a screen passage at the lower end, is a modified or assimilated form of the [[Great hall]].