There were no dormitories and self-serve cafeterias as with modern colleges, instead meals were served in a dining hall by scouts, and each student gets what are called "rooms", consisting of a bedroom and a sitting room for study and entertaining.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
The employees' cafeterias also are to go into the new section-also upon the eighth, or public restaurant floor.
"The Romance of a Great Store"
Edward Hungerford
Those bull sessions in the cafeterias, eh?
"Pythias"
Frederik Pohl