Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peru.Rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
...raid has of course caused annoyance, both because of the loss of the instruments and because of the fear that similar raids will be made and thus compel the abandonment of the station. As it is the highest meteorological station in the world, such abandonment would be a heavy disaster...
...that it will probably be some weeks before it is definitely known whether the main station itself has been disturbed. As the whole of Peru is in an unsettled condition, being in the hands of insurrectionists, the assurance will be welcome that nothing more serious has happened than the raid on El Misti...
...after-taste of the war series is found in a co-operative article by three authors called "A Romance of Morgan's Rough Riders." It descries the Northern raid of the rebel general (written by General Duke of his staff) his capture (written by a Unionist) his escape (by Captain Hines of his staff...
...yard. Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John Harvard and the buildings is great and perhaps irreparable. There have been some mischievous attacks on the statue before this, and some ungentlemanly incidents in previous celebrations, but but no student raid of modern times has been so outrageous as this...