Princeton University eating clubs

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Princeton University eating clubs are private institutions resembling both dining halls and social houses, where the majority of Princeton University undergraduate upperclassmen (typically juniors and seniors, unless there are exemptions voted within the house council) generally eat their meals. Each eating club occupies a large mansion on Prospect Avenue, one of the main roads that runs through the Princeton campus, with the exception of Terrace Club which is just around the corner on Washington Road. This area is known to students colloquially as "The Street". Princeton's eating clubs are the primary setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 debut novel, This Side of Paradise, and the clubs appeared prominently in the 2004 novel The Rule of Four. Princeton’s aforementioned undergraduate upperclassmen have their choice of eleven eating clubs. Six clubs—Cannon Club, Cap and Gown Club, Princeton Tower Club, The Ivy Club, Tiger Inn and University Cottage Club—choose their members through a selective...

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