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Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 28--The racket by which the families and friends of students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools are victims of fake hard luck stories and other schemes for obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...
...several times during the year past, men have been approached: for the most part, however, the racket has been unsuccessful because of the suspicion aroused. In one day, several parents of Harvard undergraduates were called up on the telephone, apparently by the same worker...
...racket in which the families and friends of Harvard students play the victim in the modern art of coney catching has been disclosed through the receipt of letter to Dean Hanford from a graduate of the class of 1929. The racket, which so far as is known is restricted to New York, consists of approaching the family under the pretence of being a friend of the student or recent graduate...
...have been visited by them, but fortunately I was at home and know of the racket. Another Harvard man was approached, and gave the price of a meal and offered work, which was not accepted and a Yale student of my intimate acquaintance was approached, and entry tried to be forced into his apartment...
Hoping that you will feel disposed to co-operate in eliminating a racket that is being pushed because of the unemployment situation. I remain. Your very truly. Liewllyn Bates Keim...