We hear so much about the "Greek" organizations on a campus, but ancient Egypt seems dominant, if Western Carolina's 1984 yearbook is any indication.

Try.  From the cover of Eulis! by Paschal Beverly Randolph, 1896.

From Kladderadatsch, 1927.

Here's the sphinx's hat riddle:

Q: Why is a thump like a hat?

A: [Highlight to view] Because it is felt.

"A round of hard, stony applause broke out" (Carol Dawson, The Mother-in-Law Diaries).  Stony applause is quite rare, and this illustration of it is from Lustige Blätter, 1914.

Egyptian canon.  From Nature's Harmonic Unity by Samuel Colman, 1912.

"It is easy to idealize the past.  History, like a mirage, leaves the nether side of life in the shadow.  It is not fair to set virtues of a distant time, glamored by poetry, over against the vices of today." —Joseph Fort Newton, "Is the World Growing Better?" The Christian Century, 1921

Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1899.

If you're heartily sick of this life, get emblamed for a couple hundred years.  From "Some Words With a Mummy" in Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe.

This is how the scan came out.  From The Matchless Altar of the Soul Symbolized as a Shining Cube of Diamond, One Cubit in Dimensions, and Set Within the Holy of Holies in All Grand Esoteric Temples of Antiquity by Edgar Lucien Larkin, 1916.

From an ad for Egyptian costumes, in Fliegende Blätter, 1926.