Education: Dead Tiger

They roared four decades ago when the Tiger, Princeton's famed funny magazine, published Student Scott Fitzgerald's jingles: "To be on a dais with Thais, how nais." But they had long since stopped laughing at the humor that today's Tiger has been printing with nostalgic tears in its eyes:

He: Do you object to petting?

She: That's something I've never done.

He: Never petted?

She: Never objected.

Last week, after 80 years, the "no longer funny" Tiger folded. Coming up to replace it: a serious magazine for "the more sophisticated."

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