From Interplanetary News Digest, 1954.

Here's why the earth wobbles and the plates shift.  From Berea's 1949 yearbook.

From Loyola's 1952 yearbook.

Why the earth wobbles.  "Toiling towards light."  From Purdue's 1889 yearbook.

Given how a booklover's shelves tend to sag, making the world one's bookshelf might be a practical solution.  From Moline Community College's 1961 yearbook.

"It looks like our world, only smaller."  From Amazing Stories, 1932.

The 1920s slang "it's the berries" (meaning that something is impressive, desirable, fancy) was not, according to Steven D. Price, connected to the expression "the bee's knees."  That means that these "berries" were pollinated in an untraditional manner!  The speech bubble reads, "I guess I'm not the 'berries'?"  From Middle Tennesee's 1927 yearbook.

Earthrise, from the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.

From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

From Psychic Light by Maud Lord-Drake, 1904.

"One world leads to another."  From The Link, 1947.

"Stop the World—I Want to Get Off."  From Mary Washington's 1975 yearbook.

Perplexing -- is he on our world, looking down at an alternate reality, or is he on a parallel earth looking down at ours?  From William and Mary's 1914 yearbook.

It's never too late!  Mother Earth herself didn't graduate until 1915.  From Rockford's 1915 yearbook.

When Father Time has to remind you to go back to earth (but fails to mention that your diploma isn't worth anything there).  From Johns Hopkins' 1891 yearbook.

A diploma as a gun to murder the world.  From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.

From Swarthmore's 1912 yearbook.

"Half of the world is transparent; the other half, opaque" (Carlos Fuentes).  That means this transparent globe is half inaccurate.  Then again, no map is wholly accurate.  From Northeastern Illinois' yearbook of 1971.

From Elon's 1915 yearbook.