Word: humor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green '28 has been chosen for the collegiate Hall of Fame conducted by the publication, College Humor, according to a recent announcement. The only other Harvard man known to have received this honor is George Owen, Jr., '23, who was prominent in athletics at Harvard...
Reasons given by Michigan Gargoyle Business Manager Carl U. Fauster, President of the Association, were: "College Humor through its general makeup has misrepresented the colleges and created false impressions about college life. . . . College Humor is claimed to be receiving advertisements on the assumption that as a magazine it covers the college field whereas the general belief expressed is that it does not cover the field but is read mostly by factory girls, drug store cowboys and high school students...
Potent source of indignation was an advertising survey published by College Humor estimating the cost of a full page advertisement in 86 college comics at $3,409.84, which by tacit inference was about $2,000 more than the same advertisement would cost in College Humor, presumably read by the same public...
Further indignation was caused by an article describing students at the University of Virginia* as genial and not infrequent drinkers.† Editors of University of Virginia magazines, outraged, pledged their efforts to have the Eastern College Comics Association also repudiate College Humor. The sole other college comic association, the Western, voted to cancel all contracts with it eight months before the recent action of the Midwestern...
Unperturbed, editors of College Humor could still point to their survey which covered seven fraternities in colleges from Yale to Wisconsin, from Syracuse to the University of Virginia, where at Kappa Sigma more than 95% of the fraternities were readers of College Humor. The result of this survey showed that out of 276 collegians, 242 read College Humor regularly, frequently or occasionally...