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3 “by the Publicity Department of the Agri- ~ eultural and Mechanical College of Texas. times ten equals 100. © with a teacher. fixed principles. ~ Published each morning, except Monday. Official Publication of the College. Dis- ' tributed free to all students, instructors and Campus residents. Advertising rates fur- ‘mished on application. 7 Office: Room 113, first floor Academic Building ” ————— ———————————————————————————— WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL President of the College FRANK O. MARTIN Secretary of Publicity As a rule, gents, the kind of young man who will be a failure without education won't be much of a suc- cess with education. Come to Tex- as.—State Press. FIXED PRINCIPLES (State Press). From the University of Texas comes an incisive and direct and un- dodgable challenge over the signa- - ture of a professor. He doesn’t say he is a professor, but State Press, who is a good deal of a detective, de- duces from the spaces between the lines that the challanger is a profes- - sor, and a plumb good one—if so crass a solecism is defensible in con- nection with an intellectual contro- | versy. “The square of twenty-five is | 625,” asserts the professor. “Ten | things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other. Like begets like in the process of produc- | ‘tion. These facts, and others of like character are absolute, unassailable, irrefutable and unchangable. Are the principals involved in these facts ‘fixed or are they ‘fixed principles?’ If not, what definition do you give to the term ‘fixed principles,” concern- ing which you say there are none?” demands the professor rather se- verely. State Press hates to argue He used to try it ~ once in a while, never successfully ~~ and sometimes disastrously. But in this case he feels reasonably safe, considering the intervening distance. ~ And so he will say that the professor confuses general principles with Nearly all of them do that. Also his idea of a principle ‘is the statement of an abstraction. “The square of twenty-five is 625." That is a statement, not a principla. A principle is a cause antecedent to | an effect. You may state repeti- tiously that the square of twenty-five is 625, but you are not stating a principle, but describing a mental picture. If you put it in figures on | the blackboard each figure will be a part of the effect, and to the extent that each figure is fixed the prin- ciple is fixed. But the chalk will] blow off after a while, leaving the} principle unfixed. “Two or more things that are | equal to the same thing are equal to | each other,” you say. How do you know? There are no two things equal to each other. statement is incorrect and unimpor- | tant. “Like begets like in the pro-| cess of reproduction.” It does not. Never. There are a million differ-| ences between the father and the | i more The | or child, between the bud and the] bloom, between the caterpillar and | the butterfly. Like begets similar- ity. That is a general principle, with the usual exceptions. Ten times ten equals 100 only because men say so. Two or more | I- ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. COLLEGE UP TO NOON YESTERDAY 1740 Ten times ten equals 100 what? A hundred imaginary units, perhaps. But certainly there are no fixed prin- ciples in imagination. You can dream that ten times ten equals 110. Imagination is as legitimate in one’s sleeping hours as in his waking hours. “You can’t put ten times ten sticks of wood in a rick and say the whole caboodle equals the original sticks in separate piles, because they will have lost something in handling. All mathematics are dogmatics. You can’t make a thing what you say it is by saying it is that. Every geo- metrical proposition involves an ar- bitrary assumption. There are no fixed principles. Come to Texas. re FOOTBALL CLUB STANDING. The inter-company football stand- ing up to and including games of February 8 is as follows: Team Casuals PC 1000 1000 500 500 500 000 000 000 The above standing does not in- clude forfeited, postponed, or cancell- | ed games. ——————— ———— TEXAS YELL-LEADERS AWARD- ED AN HONORARY “T” Artillery Signal Corps __5 NNO The Austin Statesman announced in last Sunday’s issue that the ath- letic council of the University of Texas had given the White yell-leaders an honorary “T”. ‘If the University appreciates the work of their yell-leaders so much as to give them an honorary “T” after losing their big football game, surely A. and M. can afford to give her yell- leader an honorary “T” after they have helped win the Southwestern Championship. BR I, CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK Friday, February 13. Junior Social, 8:00 Y. M. C. A. Saturday, February 14. Free Picture Show, Airdome 7:00 Sunday, February 15. Bible School 9:15 Guion Hall. Preaching Service, 10:50. Y.M.C.A. Chapel Service, 6:30. Episcopal Services, Room 10, C.| E. Bldg., 9 o’clock. Mass for Campus Catholics, Room 19, C. E. Bldg., 9:30. Monday, February 16. Social Science Seminar. referee YOU WIN! Paul M. Millikin says that an opti- mist is a fellow who carries a cork- screw on his key ring. ell mel re FOR SALE CHEAP-—One regula- Orange and | | eed EE a a a a a a a a A I tion pattern sheepskin coat. 82 Mil- | ner. 115 | a, EL Se... Mary Pickford in her latest produc- tion tomorrow at the Lyric. 2.2 eefale * Poa’ ot . 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Pod ; sole Joodesoetertoctastortostast Fo} ose oe Tostestoetoctestoctectet: ET EE TEE ATHLETIC GOODS Complete stock on hand for Basket Ball, Base Ball, Tennis and Track. A- M. WALDROP & CO. EB TEXAS ON THE SICK LIST We are receiving quite liberal shipments of all the dif- ferent styles and can promise reasonably prompt delivery. - CHAMBERS-WILSON MOTOR COMPANY FORD SALES AND SERVICE A Year to Pay for Your FORD CAR We will sell you a Ford Car, either new or used, and give you the most liberal terms on same. o i * 3 ay Joefeeless Jeetesfesiosiadl ea ae’ eae at ve Jeeteedest: el di : A a tard The following students were con- fined to the hospital yesterday: L. S. Black, I. Bate, B. B. Coch- ¥} With vampy, flirty- tricks every girl | ran, J. H. Claybrook, E. F. Daniel, ¥ L. H. Frede, N. L. Franke, J. C. Hor- Talmadge in “A Vir-|ger, V. H. Land, A. B. Morris, C.° Malone, C. Nabours, A. L. Nelson, E. H. Pendleton, J. S. Sanders, H. C. Shaw, B. E. Tobin, W. B. White, J. E. Woods, T. V. 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