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

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and exces ...

John McPhee John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American author. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category General Nonfiction, and he won that award on the fourt ...

Jim Lee Jim Lee (; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. As of 2023, he is the President, Publisher, and Chief creative officer, Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work ...

Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and ''Alice Adams (novel), Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to w ...

. and

Tim Ferriss Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He is known for his ''4-Hour'' self-help book series—including ''The 4-Hour Work Week'', ''The 4-Hour Body'', and ''The 4-Hour Ch ...

, 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

Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby (1978 film), Pretty Baby ...

, 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

cause célèbre A ( , ; pl. ''causes célèbres'', pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. The term is sometimes used positively for celebrated legal cases for th ...

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

Not! ... Not! is a grammatical construction in the English language used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word. It became a sardonic catchphrase in North America and elsewhere in the 1990s. A Sentence (linguistics), declarat ...

joke. ''Tiger Magazine'' also has the first recorded " There once was a man from Nantucket" limerick.

Alumni

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

Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote '' The Power Bro ...

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

Chip Deffaa Chip Deffaa is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, jazz historian, singer, songwriter, director, and producer of plays and recordings. For 18 years, he wrote for the ''New York Post'', covering jazz, cabaret, and theater. He has con ...

* Joshua Hammer * David Itzkoff *

Rob Kutner Rob Kutner is an American comedy writer-producer. Career As a writer for ''Dennis Miller Live'', he was nominated for a 2003 Writers' Guild of America Award. After ''Dennis Miller Live'' left the air, Kutner went on to write for ''The Daily Sho ...

"The Princeton Tiger"
"Princetoniana," 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-01. *

Aaron Marcus Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, and a computer graphics artist. Biography Marcus grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1950s. In secondary school he studied both science and ar ...

* Henry Martin *

* Kenneth Offit * Henry Payne *

John Seabrook John M. Seabrook Jr. (born January 17, 1959) is an American writer and journalist. He has worked for ''The New Yorker'' weekly magazine for many years, and has four published books. Biography Seabrook graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) ...

* Bob Smiley *

Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913 – December 3, 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Life and career Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princ ...

* Katrina vanden Heuvel * Christine Whelan *

Michael Witte Michael Witte (born 1944) is an American-born illustrator and cartoonist. Witte has been a regular contributor to ''TIME'', ''Harper’s'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Fortune'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. His art has app ...

Witte, Michael
"BIO"
"Michael C. Witte." Retriever 2016-03-01.

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