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...Gad-Fly", a magazine "dedicated to the play of opinion", will make its initial appearance of the year today. The Liberal Club published the first issue last December; a second came out in March and it now appears for the third time, in proof of a continued vitality...
...John Lawrence Swayz Jr. '25, of Newark, N. J.; chairman of the entertainment committee, Edward Goodwin Wesson '23, of Montclair, N. J.; members of the executive committee, Cristopher Roberts 2G., of Montclair, N. J., and Clarence James Leuba 2G., of Bryn Muwr, Pa.; and editor-in-chief of the Gad-Fly, John Lawrence Swayze Jr. '25, of Newark...
...March "Gad-fly" one of these deep-biting and blood-thirsty creatures? Hardly. It opens with a moderate and sensible article on "Peace-Time Responsibilities of Pacifists." Believing that war is preventable, Mr. Wood draws an interesting analogy between the flood-prevention work of a civil engineer on the banks of the Mississippi, and the various opportunities for prevention work which are now open to lovers of peace. The tone of the essay is conciliatory and well-bred. It neither barks nor bites...
Such queries about education are better Gad-Fly material, possibly, than the discussion of "Organized Religion" by Mr. Ferguson, and the examinations of the pseudo-sciences in their relation to philosophy, as made by Mr. Colt. Both of these essays are carefully thought out and clearly, presented; excellent, from every point of view except that of journalism. They do not draw blood...
...really going to lay the axe to the root of the tree, it will need, I think, a bit more weight in the head of the axe and a keener edge to the 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