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The Yale Record

The Yale Record is the campus humor magazine of Yale University. Founded in 1872, it is the oldest humor magazine in the United States.[3][4]

Editor in Chief

Dom Alberts

Tara Bhat

Natasha Weiss

Andrew Cramer

Humor magazine

  • Edward Anthony Bradford
  • James Heartt VanBuren
  • Samuel J. Elder
  • E.H. Lemis[1]
  • Henry Ward Beecher Howard[2]
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    1872, Yale University

    September 1872

    New Haven, Connecticut

    English

    www.yalerecord.org

    The Record is currently published eight times during the academic year and is distributed in Yale residential college dining halls and around the nation through subscriptions. Content from the magazine is made available online and entire issues can be downloaded in .pdf form.[5]

    Snews - One-liners in the form of headlines.

    Mailbags - Humorous letters to the editor, historical figures, or inanimate objects.

    The Editorial - Written by the editor in chief of the magazine each issue, giving a brief overview of the contents and making of the issue.

    Cartoons - Captioned, "New Yorker style" cartoons that hail back to the magazine's early beginnings.

    Lists and Features - Staff generated content pertinent to the magazine's theme.

    1902: The Yale Record pranked temperance activist . Pretending to be a Yale temperance group, they brought her to Yale. During her visit, they took a picture with her. At the time, nighttime indoors photography required turning off all artificial lights before exposing a photographic plate and illuminating the scene with a single flashbulb. However, in the darkness, the students from The Record pulled out a beer stein and other props to create the impression of what the Yale Daily News would characterize as a "Bacchanalian orgy."[28]

    Carrie Nation

    2015: The Yale Record hosted a mock protest on Broadway. The students called for Yale administrators to bring a second Kiko Milano store. “When we heard that Yale had decided to replace the affordable food store up on Broadway with Kiko Milano and Emporium DNA, we were really excited to have the chance to buy more luxury products at Yale because that was really hard before,” Gertler said.

    [29]

    Bladderball[edit]

    Bladderball was a game traditionally played by students at Yale, between 1954 and 1982, after which it was banned by the administration.


    It was created by Philip Zeidman as a competition between The Yale Record, the Yale Daily News, The Yale Banner and campus radio station WYBC. It was eventually opened to all students, with teams divided by residential college.[36]

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    The Yale Record

    , R. S. Peck, 1902

    Yale Fun: A Book of College Humor in Poetry, Pictures and Prose, Chosen with Loving Care from the Yale Record of the Past Eight Years; Conceived in the Sanctum, Founded on Foam, and Dedicated to the Humorous Faculty