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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

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.

The species is peculiarly worthy of study as a type of pure freak, which occurs like the seven-year locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault).

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.

The origin of this paradoxical animal remains a mystery. Perhaps it originated from one of those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is 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 '23

December 15, 1922.