Yearbook Weirdness

An intriguing invitation to let some information remain mysterious.  The handwriting reads, "Break this seal if you must know everything about this good year 1911-12.  But if you can beware then — Beware!"

From the Saint Mary's School (Raleigh) yearbook of 1912.

From Susquehanna's 1905 yearbook.

From Hampden-Sydney's 1990 yearbook.

If you ever felt a heavy sort of atmosphere looming over a campus, there's a scientific reason for it.  From Macdonald's 1936 yearbook.

The spirit of secret societies.  From Lewis Institute's 1913 yearbook.

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

From Flora Macdonald's 1931 yearbook.

From Rockford's 1938 yearbook.

From Akron's 1917 yearbook.

Futurist basketball game.  From Lewis Institute's 1913 yearbook.

From Henderson College's 1908 yearbook.

From Milliken's 1905 yearbook.

From Kansas State's 1900 yearbook.

It's always good when an administration doesn't have an inflated sense of itself.  From Armstrong's 1940 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Memphis State's 1952 yearbook.

"Await the pleasure of his goatship."  From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.

Do you remember a time when sports mascots weren't symbolic?  We do -- we're 5,000 years old.

From the "Athletics" section of North Central's 1926 yearbook.

From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

From Akron's 1917 yearbook.

Reblog if you are any or all of these things, too.  From West Georgia's 1969 yearbook.

The text reads, "I am ... cold ... drab ... gloomy ... wrinkled ... miserable ... I am wet."