"My courage did fail."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.

From Millikin's 1973 yearbook.

From the Estherian Literary Society's 1914 yearbook.

Memories of college.  This takes us right back to our Freshman year.  From Wake Forest's 1979 yearbook.

"I know a secret."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.

It is mere superstition that on October 31, Zorro will scrawl in lipstick, "Happy Halloween superwitch" on one's mirror.  From Guilford's 1967 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1920.

From B.A.R., 1985.

A library ghost (confirmed by our custom Uncanny Detector app), from Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.

"I am exciting [sic] to meet new people and fully live life as a gopher" (University of Minnesota, "Orientation & Transition Experiences," 2009).

Our photo is from Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.

Staring at himself in the mirror, as opposed to looking at the camera lens so as to engage with the viewer.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.

It's all-too-rare for a student's official yearbook portrait to feature his shadow self just beyond the pane.  From Guilford's 1976 yearbook.

Mask down, mask up.  (We tried to make an animated gif of these photos but failed to notice from the backgrounds that they obviously wouldn't match up.)  From Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.

Mae Marsh, from Cine-Mundial, 1922.

From Photo-Play Journal, October 1920.

You've heard of having a flair for jazz.  Here's what a flare for jazz looks like.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.

"Happiness is an 11:00 phone call."  From Hope College's 1964 yearbook.

This is actually offered as "proof" of study abroad in Australia.  Overlooking the offensive stereotype of the continent, a novelty cutout of a kangaroo at a zoo is perhaps even less convincing than posing with a baguette and calling it France.  From Duke's 1994 yearbook.