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
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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 |
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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.
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TEXAS YELL-LEADERS AWARD-
ED AN HONORARY “T”
Artillery
Signal Corps __5
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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.
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