Puff, the Magic Dragon. Puff, the Magic Dragon (or Puff) is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. Lipton wrote a poem in 1959; Yarrow found it and wrote the lyrics based on the poem. After the song was released, Yarrow searched for Lipton and gave him half credit for the song.
MORE: Top four-year colleges. MORE: Top two-year colleges. But if you want to know how vets or military students are doing, you're out of luck. What's worse, one common statistic used to track academic success, the graduation rate, is calculated in a way that completely excludes most current and former troops.
If you see a low retention rate and a low graduation rate, that may be the case. Some will go to a college with less expensive tuition for two or three years then switch over to another university. California State University Of Los Angeles has a 45% transfer rate.