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 Nebelspalter, 1913.

From Nebelspalter, 1909.

From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

The night is dark and full of spirits, and they want to help cure you of your fear of death. Because when your work here is finally done, you'll be able to join them in their nightly dance and jail-break out of the prison of matter. 

 

I mean, if you so choose.

Get out there and open yourself up to the world of the spirits.There are all kinds for you to meet: animal spirits, nature spirits, ancestor spirits, star spirits, you name it. The good ones don't want anything from you, because you don't have anything they need. 

 

You really have nothing to offer them but your company. Be generous with it, and they will soothe your stresses and anxieties and peel away your terror of the grave. Guaranteed.

A safely-bottled technology for yellow-cake heacaches.  From Woroni, 1977.

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."

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.

Rare: a cloud-based Statue of Liberty billowing over a cemetery.  From Michigan's 1919 yearbook.

Rails for their skates.  From Nebelspalter, 1913.

Having a good sense of rhythm is not required for having "rhtyum."  From Belmont Abbey's 1987 yearbook.

Don't you hate it when skeletons eavesdrop on your conversations?  From Twice a Week, 1862.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

So rare: jackass centaurs, and the King of Asses even wields a jackass marotte.  From Millikin's 1931 yearbook.

Light up the night.  From Le Chariviari, 1884.