High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The eating clubs at Princeton University are private institutions resembling both dining halls and social houses, where the majority of Princeton upperclassmen 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 more recently, the clubs appeared prominently in the best-selling 2004 novel, The Rule of Four.