From Rockford's 1946 yearbook.

From the State College of Washington's yearbook of 1912.

"The wizard represented himself as the fountainhead of all knowledge.  He knew the secrets of the past, present, and future."  From Magician's Magic by Paul Curry, 1965.

Note that the 9-letter grid forms a rather difficult Boggle-style game board.  How many words can you find?  Here are some clues:

1. To obtain by deceit (4 letters).

2. An alcohol molecule containing two hydroxyl groups (4 letters).

3. A temporary release (4 letters).

4. Having a strong, disagreeable smell (4 letters).

5. (Archaic) having obeyed; from Arabic, a servant or worshipper (4 letters).

6. Put to death (obsolete form) (4 letters).

7. About 2.2 pounds (4 letters).

8. To open a locked door by sliding a thin piece of plastic between the door edge and frame to force open a spring lock (4 letters).

Answers [highlight to view]: 1. bilk; 2. diol; 3. bail; 4. olid; 5. abid; 6. kild; 7. kilo; 8. loid.  Three-letter words: aid, ail, bad, bid, bio, cid, dab, dib, ilk, jib, jol, kid, lib, lid, oik, oil, old.

From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).

From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.

"Little round and crystal sphere / Show us, show us true and clear."  From the State Teachers College at Boston yearbook of 1955.

This philosophy student's official yearbook portrait is that of a wizard alchemist. From Davidson's 1979 yearbook.

A crystal ball from the Teachers College of the City of Boston yearbook of 1928.

"A thick vapour arose, and the fantastic form swayed to and fro behind it."  From The Idler, 1906.

Reblog if you've done a cake walk for a wizard.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.

From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.

To learn how to use a printed owl like this magical purposes, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From The Cornhusker Yearbook of the University of Nebraska, 1916.

By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, in Forum, 1914.

"Mighty the wizard who found me at sunrise sleeping and woke me and learned me magic."  From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See The Young Wizard's Hexopedia and Magic Words: A Dictionary.