A group of Grinnell students show off their calloused hands, in May of 1948, after spending the morning taking part in the campus-wide spring cleaning that took place each year as part of the elaborate “Spring Day” festivities. Students washed windows, scrubbed facades, cleaned up the loggia, white-washed the campus signs, removed leaves, hauled off brush, and tended to the college garden. Each year, from 1940 until the mid-1960s, a student and faculty committee would select a date for the Spring Day activities, cancelling class so that all students, faculty, and staff could participate.