Meal Hall

The Meal Hall (formally Becker Hall) of Marshall College was a cafeteria building with Gothic arches and high-pitched roof, filled with chairs and long table with the kitchen at the back where the cooks readied the meals. The hall sometimes doubled as a lecture hall, and some students used the building as a study place during off hours. Others tried to score food off the kitchen staff.

The Meal Hall was originally named after a 17th century English scientist called Samuel J. Becker but around 1906, one the man's descendents discovered his diary along with the revelation that Becker had made a living stealing the ideas and inventions of other scientists and students. Instead, the name of college's first Head Cook was chosen to call the building "Murphy Hall" before being retracted when the man had been found to have been a embezzler during his campus tenure.

The incidents birthed the idea of "the Cafeteria Curse" and it was decided the Meal Hall wouldn't be renamed.