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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: May 10, 2009
Caption: Cadet Life Garden - Mail Call
Additional Description: The limited number of boxes in the campus post office could not accommodate the entire student body, and so a daily "mail call" took place - seen here in 1938 from the balcony of 2nd Barracks. Freshmen were sent to pick up mail from the upperclassmen to whom they were assigned, as well as for themselves. In later years, "rats" were sent to the new campus post office, sometimes several times a day, for the mail. This was one of the many services freshmen were required to perform in their "rat" year.
Submitted: May 31, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p65371
File Size: 0.066 Megabytes

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