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Perrin H. Sumner, a lawyer, is under arrest in New York on a charge of swindling Mr. D. M. Davidson out of $15,000 in a bogus mining speculation...
...petition was recently sent to the faculty of Cornell by the students requesting that a course in phonography be established in the college. Bogus names were affixed to the petition by some person who wished to be funny, and defaced as it was, as the Era says, the probabilities of its being granted are greatly lessened. We do not wish to comment upon the foolish action of affixing the bogus names, for that has already been handled severely enough in a very sensible editorial in the Era, but would observe that a course in phonography - an elective to be taken...
...time when the Freshman is deceived by the bogus summons. Last year they had the college seal in the corner, and purported to come from the office. Look out for them...
...himself away by knocking at the door of U. 5, or by calling the instructor "professor," he is not looked upon as an inferior being by any except senseless Sophomores. We are all liable to be taken in, at least once in our lives, and the recipients of those bogus summonses, we are sure, will find sympathizers in the Senior class...