From Elon's 1925 yearbook.

You've heard there's no point unless you dedicate your life to it (whatever "it" may entail).  Well, this particular yearbook staff followed up on that, and apparently none of them lived to see the publication.  From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.

Rare -- a back view of insects bidding farewell.  From Hollins Institute's 1919 yearbook.

"The end of space."  From Swarthmore's 1922 yearbook.

From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.

From A Child's Book of Holiday Plays by Frances Gillespy Wickes, 1916.

At first glance, we thought that was a giant, ghostly leg and foot stepping on the horizon.  From Colorado College's 1925 yearbook.

From Akron's 1917 yearbook.

As we were posting this, Front 242's lyric was playing: "We'll always be remembered; we'll always be dismembered."  From Washington State's 1906 yearbook.

Death by final exam.  From Akron's 1917 yearbook.

"It is now time to see, for the end lurks ominously about; around every corner, in empty closets."  From Elon's 1978 yearbook. 

"It's doubtful even to know where to start.  The end."  From Woroni, 1963.

"The cluttered hallways, battered and splattered and cursed, are dry with silence."  From Elon's 1978 yearbook.

"The end--slow as it was.  Spasms of excitement surge through the the [sic] veins; for what you are not sure.  The only surety is that this is the end. The end--"  From Elon's 1978 yearbook.

"It's all over now."  From Mars Hill's 1947 yearbook.

Q: "The end.  Or is it the beginning, as you see it?"  From George Washington's 2000 yearbook.

A: Begend the endginning (The Heart, She Holler.)

The final curtain from Lasell's 1942 yearbook.

From Swarthmore's 1934 yearbook.

From William and Mary's 1907 yearbook.

From Mount Vernon Seminary's 1952 yearbook.