That feeling when you're so busy pointing at what makes you cry that you can't see the rose being offered behind you.  From Flora Stone Mather College's 1929 yearbook.

"The word is the way something floats which cannot be seen.  The word is the call of the tribe from down under the water.  The word is the thing the wind says to the dead.  The word is the white candle at the foot of the throne. (Kenneth Patchen)."  From Wheaton College's 1970 yearbook.

From Chatterbox, 1912.

"And now it's over."  From Lenoir Rhyne College's 1946 yearbook.

From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.

From the University of Mississippi's 1904 yearbook.

Pushed off the roof.  From St. Nicholas, 1891.

Spurs and a holster for graduation.  From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.

From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 1907.

From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

From Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by Carl Jung.

From the University of Arkansas' 1921 yearbook.

"How to pour molasses out of a cup."  From Improvement Era, 1954.

From Indiana University's 1984 yearbook.

From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.

From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  

From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.

From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.