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Although there is an undoubted value in sugaring the diet, it has been observed, and rightly observed, that the main purpose of lollypops is to give the child a substitute for his thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills...
...unfortunate fact that it is usually impossible for sincere believers in a cause to master an unbiased, judicious view of the situation of which they are a part. On one side lies emotional fanaticism, on the other, indecision. The Scrubwomen affair has provided fuel for much vari-coloured fire which includes the extremely red, the chronic critic of established authority, the opportunist with a personal grudge, and the sincere knight errant of the wronged...
...dumb society you would find out their opinions more easily than you would learn those of a state delegation to a national convention. It was Joseph who had the coat of many colors, wasn't it? Well, the Massachusetts delegations to the coming convention will be much more vari-colored than Joseph's coat ever...
...previous volume. Is it possible that another parody is about to be born? The history of that ancient literary form is an honorable one in the University. Aristocrats and Proletarians are not forgotten; the Harvard Magazine, now serenely buried, was once a recurrent ghost who mimicked himself from vari-colored pages; and the buzz of a recent mockgad-fly still echoes...