Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1913 — No More Tank Scraps Was Decision of Purdue Students. [ARTICLE]

No More Tank Scraps Was Decision of Purdue Students.

By a very large majority the students at Purdue University Saturday voted to abandon the annual tank scrap, which had culminated Friday night in the death of a sophomore. The custom had prevailed for twenty years and was permitted by the faculty because it brought to a close all class troubles. There was great sorrow at the death of Obenchain. Parents of Purdue students, past, present and future, will be glad to know that this “relic of barbarism” is done away with.