The Harvard Lampoon The Harvard Lampoon The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The "Harvard Lampoon" publication was founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts who were inspired by popular magazines like "Punch" (1841) and "Puck" (1871)."The Harvard Lampoon" is the world's second longest-running continually published humor magazine (after "Nebelspalter"). The organization also produces occasional humor books (the best known being the 1969 J.R.R. Tolkien parody "Bored of the Rings") and parodies of national magazines such as "Entertainment Weekly" and "Sports Illustrated". Much of the
Harvard University Band Man (now Grad)...but you can't tell 'em very much." In keeping with that tradition, the main Harvard fight song, "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" features a first verse in Latin. The verse is intended as an extended Latin pun and makes little sense when translated: Illigitimum non Carborundum, Domine Salvum Fac, Illigitimum non Carborundum, Domine Salvum Fac. Gaudeamus Igitur, Veritas, non Sequitur, Illigitimum non Carborundum, Ipso Facto Uniquely among college bands, the Harvard Band holds its own reunion every five years. It is also the oldest college band reunion in the world, with the first held at the Harvard University