Surprisingly, this page from a religious college's yearbook revises the Bible, changing "through a glass, darkly" (1 Corinthians 13) to "brightly," a revision used by anti-religionists.  (There's even a book with this revision as its title: Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are.)  Unable to control themselves, the yearbook editors ran with the revisionism and brought coffee into it: "Through a glass warmly."  From Mount Olive's 1963 yearbook.

People turn into numbers in the endpapers of Northeastern's 1984 yearbook.

Finally, an explanation we can understand -- "Math a world of numbers."  From Charleston Southern's 1972 yearbook.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.

There are zero Google Books results for "writing with spilled ink."  Yet it's how we compose all of our own books.  From Purdue's 1907 yearbook.

"Not every mask is easily shed, and the last masks to come off are the ones that are terror-driven" (Steven Carter).  From Susquehanna's 1979 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Brevard's 1980 yearbook.

Mermaids tend to test out of swimming class.  From Western State Normal School's 1920 yearbook.

The most unlikely pairings of photos to college departments that we've encountered to date.  Or are they the most perfect pairings?  From Missouri Southern's 1971 yearbook.

"Spires whose 'silent finger points to heaven' —Wordsworth."  From Wake Forest's 1953 yearbook.

A cleverly-designed hourglass / graduate.  From St. Joseph's 1988 yearbook.

It has been foreseen -- "there will be a meeting."  From Kansas State's 1948 yearbook.

"New visions appear, some haunting … into the night."  From Palm Beach's 1970 yearbook.

From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

"Got Weed" is actually "Go Tweed," at least officially.  From Mary Washington's 1961 yearbook.

A ray emanates from the third eye chakra.  From Evansville's 1983 yearbook (top).  Lest one think this was a fluke, we noticed an eerily similar phenomenon in the Francis Marion yearbook of 1979 (bottom).

In another yearbook, we spotted a drawing of the same phenomenon.

Grave-robbing sheet ghosts haunt Denison's 1963 yearbook.

Reblog if you've ever given Petulant a good luck kiss.  From Mary Washington's 1961 yearbook.

As if we weren't already under enough pressure, now we're told to "remember everything."  From Pembroke's 1966 yearbook.

"Let me refer."  An illustration by Kate Bennett for the State Normal School for Women's 1917 yearbook.

"All hell shall stir for this. —Shakespeare."  From Wake Forest's 1953 yearbook.