Collection Title: Scripts 'N Pranks

Record Group Number: 10/2.23

Volume: 12 folders in 2 boxes

Restrictions none

Biographical Note: After The Yowl [RG 10/2.19] was retired, most of the editorial staff remained to produce Scripts N Pranks, a magazine devoted to "literature (scripts) and humor (pranks)." The first issue was produced in November of 1936. It was a quarterly magazine until the fall of 1958, when it began publishing three times a year. In the early 1940s there was a break in publication due to World War II.

Early on, the editors published humor balanced with poetry, literature, and other fillers, but later Scripts N Pranks reverted its focus back to humor and satire by separately publishing the issues: only one issue was of literary nature while the others focused on humor.

The last issue was published in February of 1965 because the editors felt that Scripts 'N Pranks no longer represented Davidson College. The Miscellany [RG 10/2.21], a more serious literary magazine, was begun after the Scripts N Pranks ended.

Scope Note: This collection consists of single issues of the Scripts 'N Pranks arranged chronologically from the first published in November of 1936 to the last issue in February of 1965.

Subjects:
1. Scripts 'N Pranks
2. Student Publications

Folders:

1. Box 1
2. November 1936-May 1938
3. November 1938-December 1939
4. March 1940-December 1941
5. March 1942-May 1947
6. October 1947-March 1949
7. Summer 1949-May 1951
8. October 1951-October 1954
9. December 1954-October 1956
10. Box 2
11. January 1957-October 1958
12. December 1958-April 1961
13. Winter 1961-October 1963
14. February 1964-February 1965