Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1916 — Purdue University Holding Centennial Program Today. [ARTICLE]

Purdue University Holding Centennial Program Today.

Purdue University is celebrating the birth of Indiana today in a most fitting manner. The exercise started on Stewart Field this afternoon at 2:30, by a selected cast of students, assisted by the entire university student body, in a preliminary parade. In the evening the celebration will be continued when Rev. John Cavanaugh, oT'Notre Dame university, will make an address on the subject, “What Constitutes a State?” The Purdue military band, composed of eighty pieces, one of the finest in the state, will music,..thro.ughQ.ul the day. There will be no charge for any part of the entertainment, and preparation’s were made for an aud’ence of ten thousand. Groups of students will present scenes Symbolical of the different departments of the university.