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...blade. Or rather, let us revert to entomology. There is an insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June-bug to sting the Athenians into action
...their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more than to cry, "Boo!" and the Englishman of leisure is still able to sleep sweetly on a full stomach and say to himself, "Oh England, 'my merry England, my most kindly nurse...
Entemologists will remark a new species of hybrid bug flitting about! It is called the Gad-Fly. It is red all over, but by no means reveals the hereditary black and white of its parental inspirator...
This freak bug is not a dominant type. It fades out rapidly and leaves a prolific generation of the authentic black and white variety. The freak may be recognised by a decided tendency to run wild and to cover in area what it lacks in depth-in short, by a total absence of any specific gravity. For this reason it is a welcome visitor to the overburdened college mind...
...heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...