Word: encroachment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spectators at the practice games of the eleven, especially as it is announced that games have been arranged with the Institute of Technology and Williams College, to be played during the week. It is very evident that unless the spectators are kept in their places and not allowed to encroach on the field, they interfere seriously with the play as well as cut off most of the view from the seats, and so it would seem as if some restraint were desirable. We therefore trust that the experience of the last game played here may not be repeated...
...various ways. They would have been much less the past year, had there been no trouble with the launch (kindly loaned us by Prof. Agassiz) at New London, which necessitated the sending of our own launch there. As the items in these accounts are sufficiently clear, I shall not encroach upon your space further, by enlarging on them. Permit me again, through your columns, to thank all those who so kindly assisted me last year. My very particular thanks are due to Mr. Guy Waring, the treasurer of 1881-1882, for his frequent assistance and invaluable advice, and it gives...
...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...