This photograph depicts two students having fun playing with a water hose during a campus grading project in 1899. This was one of several grading projects completed by students on campus as part of student work days, a forerunner of today's Humanics in Action Day where students go out into the community to do cleaning, work and educational programs. The building shown was most likely the Administration Building;
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Notes:
A handwritten caption on the back reads "Grading Work May 1899".