Like so many comedians, Lehrer got his start by going to Harvard. He wrote and recorded his first song, “Fight Fiercely Harvard,” at the age of 17. Lehrer entered the mainstream in the 60’s, contributing to That Was the Week That Was,

There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms in pearls and churchgoing families, of patriotic youth and apple pies cooling on the sills of tidy new suburban homes.

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.

Tom Lehrer was a mathematician—and quite a good one, by all accounts. Which makes it all the more interesting that he was renowned mostly for sitting at a piano with a sly grin on his face. Always wearing a suit and horn-rim glasses, he would sing ...