Science and politics were as inseparable in the 1920s as they are a century later.  From Otterbein's 1923 yearbook.

Here's a goat who ran for office as a "dark horse."  From Wake Forest's 1964 yearbook.

Delving through yearbooks across the decades, we're constantly reminded of how the names for the political parties flip back and forth about every 60 years.  In 1901, the democratic party fought for "free beer, free lunch, no work," whereas in the 1960s and 70s, of course, the democratic party fought for worker's rights: as in the yearbook page pictured here, "I vote democrat because I work for a living."  Today, it has all flipped again, with the democratic party again promising free beer, free lunch, and no work.

From Purdue's 1901 yearbook (top) and Southwestern's yearbook of 1973 (bottom).

The amorphous blob of politics is here very accurately depicted on the chalkboard.  While Florida is shown flatteringly thick and long, the peninsula in truth suffers shrinkage from all the surrounding water.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see if the politician is "all wet." From Kladderadatsch, 1924.

"My country 'tis of everybody else."  From McClure's, 1920.

"Grand exhibition of political science," from Grip, 1884.

"The names and the faces may change, but the game is still the same"
(W. A. Sabit, The Anatomy of Change, 2012).
Click to change just the face.

Elections haven't evolved, as Fun magazine reminds us in 1885.

Here's the sacrifice of the political hydra, from The Men in the Moon or The Devil to Pay, illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1820.

"The death of the political hydra," from The Men in the Moon or The Devil to Pay, illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1820.