Word: pang
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...allowed the mortal frame to know; for the development of manliness in the sense of stubborn and strenuous effort; for wholesome and innocent use of the fire and sinew of youth, in the fresh air, under the clear sky of heaven; animated by loyal purpose, and sparing no passing pang for the furtherance of a desired object-there is nothing in the whole range of manly training which can equal it, the ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday...
Perhaps the most conspicuous change is a negative one, namely, the removal of the old Holmes homestead. The removal must have cost many a real pang to the lovers of all that is historical and to the admirers of the eminent poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes; but, notwithstanding, it had to be made. Architectural effect, modern improvement, in a word, progress, know no sentiment, and never ask what a thing has been but what it is. To the builders and designers of the Law School (Austin Hall) the Holmes house was an obstruction, an eye-sore; and, therefore, the Holmes house...
...Yale has at last organized a co-operative society, and it cost her a pang, no doubt, to follow the lead of her rival, Harvard; but her good sense perceived the advantages of co-operation which are manifest wherever it has been tried," says the Student...
...clip the following suggestive passage from a recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share...
Even Daniel Pratt seems to have forsaken us in our misery of the mid-years. This is one less pang to our griefs...