''Princeton Tiger'' or ''Tiger Magazine'' is the second oldest college humor magazine in the United States, published by

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undergraduates since 1882. It is best known for giving the start to literary and artistic talent as wide-ranging as

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. and

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, first publishing the " Man from Nantucket" limerick, and being the first published source using the Tiger as mascot for Princeton.

History

The magazine's style has not remained stagnant over the past 135 years. While the format in the mid-20th century still tended towards humorous, light pieces, the off-campus circulation was broader and the writing reflected it. In recent years, ''Tiger Magazine'' has moved to the internet, where it has begun to expand its topics to be more accessible to those outside of Princeton. Past editorial boards have occasionally published material sufficiently offensive as to spark controversy. Most famous among those controversies was the "Brooke Book" issue of 1983, which satirized an actress named "Brook Shell" who had been purportedly accepted into Princeton—a thinly veiled jab at the real-life actress-model

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, shortly after she was accepted into Princeton's class of 1987. While the published material was substantially less obscene than some of the drafts that led to it (see the links below for details), the magazine's graduate board was so disturbed as to fire the top undergraduate officers shortly after the issue was published. The issue became a campus

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, attracting national news attention. The March 30, 1893 issue contained the earliest print appearance of the delayed postfixed

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joke. ''Tiger Magazine'' also has the first recorded "

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" limerick.

Alumni

A number of its writers and editors later went on to notable literary or artistic careers. * Bill Brown *

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* Whitney Darrow, Jr.Leitch, Alexander
"Princeton Tiger, The"
''A Princeton Companion'', 1978. Retrieved 2016-03-01. *

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* Joshua Hammer *

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"The Princeton Tiger"
"Princetoniana," 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-01. * Aaron Marcus * Henry Martin *

* Kenneth Offit * Henry Payne *

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* Bob Smiley *

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* Michael WitteWitte, Michael
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References

External links

''The Princeton Tiger'' - Tigermag.com

* ttps://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW98-99/14-0421/0421feat.html ''PAW'' article discussing ''Tiger Magazine'' and Brooke Shields {{Princeton College humor magazines Princeton University Magazines established in 1882 Princeton University publications Magazines published in New Jersey