The kids aren't taught this anymore.  From Rend Lake's 1977 yearbook.

From The American Legion Weekly, 1922.

You've heard the great question from The Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?"  It's actually not that difficult.  From the University of the South's 1976 yearbook.

From Fields of Applied Psychology by Anne Anastasi.

It used to be, "Keep five books apart" to prevent the spread of cooties, but now nobody reads.  From Berea's 1968 yearbook.

How true those words are, even today.  "Fictitious candidates win phony election."  From The Gateway, 1974.

What's interesting is that every audience has one of these, though not everyone notices.  From Eastern Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.

Based upon this headline, the end of the world will stem not from the failures of capitalism but of capitalization.  From Woroni, 1991.

"Enough to make a cat laugh."  From The Film Daily, 1924.

From Longwood's 1931 yearbook.

From Washington College's 1981 yearbook.

Here's our restoration of this piece by Virgil Finlay in Worlds of IF, May 1963.

"Capricious silence, violating the womb of futurity."  Alas, this college didn't teach not to write outside one's vocabulary capability.  Also, this is a yearbook on drugs.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

Our Tic Tac Toe generator builds stories out of the one-letter words X and O.  Here's an example.  To play along, see below for instructions and a link to a template.

From Anderson's 1915 yearbook.  To better understand images like this, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.