"A personification.  The books dedicate their new library."  From the State Female Normal School's 1903 yearbook.

From Northeastern's 1932 yearbook.

"In darkness there is no choice.  It is light that enables us to see the difference between things." —Two Brothers [Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, 1889].  From Marion's 1923 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to that line in John Waters' Pecker, in which an obscene caller asks for a body part to be put up to the phone.  The caption reads, "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone."  From Georgia Southern's 1962 yearbook.

Gazing into those eyes may induce a hypnotic state.  From St. Andrews' 1976 yearbook.

The school's undying spirit can't be expelled but never graduates.  Municipal University of Omaha's 1951 yearbook.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

From Hampden-Sydney's 1903 yearbook.

An optical illusion -- can it be true that atheists will see only a series of lines?  From N. C. Wesleyan's 1977 yearbook.

From Duke's 1969 yearbook.

What the recipe books never admit: any one confection can give rise to worry, accusation, joy, anger, and questioning (as depicted here).  The larger the baked good, the wider the range of emotions it engenders.  From Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.

For those looking for a drag name, "Tuck Fexas."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.

We've endured some fairly stressful English teachers, so this headline rings true.  "Humanity stressed by English faculty."  From Charleston Southern's 1972 yearbook.

"Healthy atmosphere."  From Kent State's 1952 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From N. C. Wesleyan's 1977 yearbook.

"Light is weightless, and yet it is so real that it provides the yardstick for measuring the universe" (George Seielstad, 1962).  From Duke's 1969 yearbook.

"More wine and cheese please."  From Johnson C. Smith University's 1982 yearbook.

The grim reaper looks over the operation, scythe ready.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1938 yearbook.

From Mars Hill's 1983 yearbook.