CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
She's apparently recycling her empty Stroh's beer cans into her library's book return slot. And it's her official yearbook portrait. From Queens College's 1973 yearbook.
Are books actually the same as beer? Consider: "Pouring knowledge into yourself from the books like beer into a big mug until you were saturated, brimming" (Engineering and Science magazine, 1950), and "Books, like beer, have gone up in price but down in quality" (The American Oxonian, 1968).
"There are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the genuine." —Marianne Moore
Twenty of their faces are more than partially obscured. Our guess is that it took so long to set up the shot that nobody even cared at that point. From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.
You already noticed that five of their heads are remarkably too small, and more than those have been pasted onto other bodies. What's also peculiar is that only one runner, L. E. McKibben, was unable to be present when the photo was taken. From Oberlain's 1923 yearbook.
"There are ships that come in and ships that go out with colors flying gay, but best of all is friend ship for it never goes away." From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.
Always dress like you're going somewhere better later (a tip we learned from our dearly departed magic teacher, Eugene Burger). From Salem's 1989 yearbook.