The Yellow Journal
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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The Yellow Journal is a student-run humor publication at The University of Virginia. Similar to Harvard's Harvard Lampoon, The Yellow Journal is the longest-running, though not continuously published, humor and satire publication at Jefferson's university. The Yellow Journal's overarching outlook was summarized early on by The New York Times, which in a 1913 edition wrote, "The Yellow Journal [...] did not spare individuals, events or institutions in its ridicule and quips. It was well illustrated with appropriate cartoons. The character of the sheet can be best gathered from its motto, which is one of Mark Twain's witticisms: Truth is precious--therefore economize with it."
Mottos
Throughout the decades, the Journal utilized many various slogans and mottos, including (but not limited to):
- "All The News That Is Unfit To Print" 1912
- "Truth is precious--therefore economize with it." 1913
- "Be Not Hasty in the Spirit To Be Angry, For Anger Resteth In The Bosom of Fools." 1921
- "Silence Is The Journal's Thunder. To Be Ignored By The Journal Is Ignominy." 1921, 1992, 1993
- "Quidquid discipuli disciplulorum in usum pepentistis, frustum eius hic videstis. (Your student activity fees at work.)" 1987, 1992, 1993
- "Definitively inaccurate since 1912" 2010-2016
- "Economizing the Truth since 1912" 2016-Present