""In the vain pursuit of this and that endeavor and dispute" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

"With them the seeds of wisdom did I sow, and with mine own hand wrought to make it grow" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from the endpapers of Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

""What[!] out of senseless nothing to provoke a conscious something" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

We're honored by this review of our collection of 112 spooky cocktail recipes, Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead:

Here's a toast to the dead from the book.  The text reads:

This toast was passed down to us from the Omar Khayyam Society, 1921:

To those who have passed beyond the veil that hides the Infinite, and solved the last great mystery of life.  In enduring memory of these friends and comrades we annually, with humble and contrite hearts, in solemn appreciation of the glorious beauties of their lives, speak the seven hundred-year-old lament of Omar in FitzGerald’s magnificent rendering:

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,
Have drunk their Cup and Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.