Word: encroachments
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties. At Rugby, at Winchester, and other public schools, and afterwards at Oxford and Cambridge, they won high rank as scholars. This they could not possibly have done had they given - or been allowed to give - one-tenth part of the time devoted to those purposes...