From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From the State Normal School for Women's 1916 yearbook.

From Missouri Southern's 1981 yearbook.

From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

"One day as I sat musing alone and melancholy and without a friend, there came a voice from out of the gloom, saying 'Cheer up! Things could be worse!'  So I cheered up, and sure enough—things got worse."  From North Central's 1973 yearbook.

Fashions change so quickly -- the 1980s seem a world away.  From Northwest Nazarene's 1984 yearbook.

From DePauw's 1911 yearbook.

Refreshing honesty about how the college system works.  From UNC Asheville's 1974 yearbook.

A classic mop wig look, from Northeastern's 1968 yearbook.

From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

From Park College's 1922 yearbook.

Even without helium, balloons beguile.  From  Northwest Nazarene's 1984 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to today's worthless self-help books.  The first three ways to get what you want are blank, and the fourth is to "look around you."  The only self-help book we can vouch for is How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Millikin's 1948 yearbook.

From Elmhurst's 1986 yearbook.

"If you take a flashlight and shine it on a sundial at night, you can make the sundial tell any time you want" (Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye).  From Pfeiffer's 1961 yearbook.

From Kent State's 1985 yearbook.

Ectoplasm is all-too-rare in yearbooks, much less combined with a mop wig.  From Northwest Nazarene's 1984 yearbook.

From Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.