Yearbook Weirdness

From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

That feeling when Father Time traps you in his hourglass and sits back to watch you squirm.  From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

Revealed: the Nipper dog of "His Master's Voice" was actually hearing a parrot's mimicry.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

Few people have heard of the tiny sea creature called the "ploshkin."  A web search for "ploshkin betty wales" will reveal all, as will this fashion history blog post about it.  From Chowan's 1917 yearbook.

"It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness."  By the way, the large-eyed figures are identified as the sophomore class officers.  From Union College's 1976 yearbook.

If you melted at your graduation like the Wicked Witch or Obi Wan Kenobi, reblog.  From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

"Ah Life, my own Libido, my Despair, my Guilt, my Need, a Glory, a Mocking, a Hope."  The cover of Lenoir-Rhyne's 1968 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, study the sunlit pattern on the floor.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

"The Phantoms."  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"I gazed into a kaleidoscope once and juxtaposed there I saw everything I am and ever will be."  The photo isn't kaleidoscopic, and "juxtaposed" is the wrong word, but there are worse things about his yearbook.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

From the 1923 yearbook of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina.

Here's a peek into the crystal balls we have photographed in near total darkness.

What does a yearbook on drugs sound like?  "Focusing yesterday's indelible recall in silhouette with eternity while playing the game of my own undoing."  Just say no.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

Basketball has changed over the years, but some might say that the original spirit of the game endures.  (We wouldn't, but some might.)  From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, bear the heavy burden of a growing soul.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

A confluence of parallel realities.  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

If there's anything worse than yearbook writers trying to sound deep, tell me, because it'll be news to me.  "Praying for voiceless cannons silenced by golden hopes of distant realities."  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.