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Directly east from the Commons is the University Center, opened in 1964 to ease gustatory growling. Undergraduates in the innocent 1950s had staged several campus wide strikes over such major issues as the quality of the hot potato salad and the need for "more fruit in the fruit salad" (as reported in The Acorn.) When dining shifted to the Commons, the UC became a place of mailboxes, the book store, meeting rooms, bulletin boards and a place to while away an idle hour or two.
Great Hall, just north of the UC, is the most Gothically correct building on campus. Its towering New Hampshire granite walls stretch 135 feet across the front. On ground-breaking day in October 1912, the new edifice was likened to the splendid Christ Church Hall at Oxford, where John Wesley and others had eaten, likely opining that the pease porridge was too hot- or too cold.
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