Word: anti
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman I drew a middle entry ground-floor room facing the south, and, spite of the pitying accents and sympathetic glances of my friends, thought myself very well off. I was warned that there were two societies in the entry, but as one was aesthetic and the other anti-atheistic, I concluded I could stand it if they could. I did n't know the vast resources of the human mind when musical...
...Anti-Alcohol Society has been formed. Members are required to sign the pledge, and subscribe not less than one shilling per annum...
...hear some fearful one exclaim, "Beware lest in avoiding Charybdis you run on Scylla. Beware! the philosophy of Herbert Spencer is anti-Christian." Brother, fear not. This philosophy follows the Christian precept; it is "all things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality...
...recent lecture Professor Adams declared that the real conqueror of England was Hildebrand. England stood in the way of his cherished plan of bringing the German Empire into subjection to the Church. Her Archbishop of Canterbury even accepted his pall from the anti-pope favored by the Emperor. Therefore Hildebrand deliberately planned the conquest of the island. At the proper time he both protected his Norman tools in front, by excommunicating Harold, and guarded their rear by satisfactory assurances that the French should not aggress upon their native territory. His gain was to be twofold; the favor conferred would bind...
...shielding it from every temptation and every danger. When temptation and danger do come in early manhood, sudden and powerful as they will, self-reliance and a knowledge of good and evil must be present or the structure, so carefully reared, falls. I cannot blame the man who breaks anti-tobacco and anti-spirit pledges, made by proxy when he was four or five years old. And for the disgust in which good and sacred things may be held, from having been, in a manner, kidnapped into their observance, temperance orators and revivalists are not blameless. If teachers and writers...