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 Corbusier, housing the film archive, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilizations of the Western Hemisphere, and the Semitic Museum featuring artifacts from excavations in the Middle East. Among overall rankings, the "Academic Ranking of World Universities" ("ARWU") has ranked Harvard as the world's best university every year since it was first released. When QS and "Times Higher Education (THE)" were published in partnership as the "THE-QS World University Rankings" during 20042009, Harvard had held the top spot every year, so has it on "THE World Reputation Rankings" ever since it was released