Editing E. B. White (section)

==Early life, family and education==
White was born in [[Mount Vernon, New York]], on July 11, 1899, the sixth and youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, the president of a piano firm, and Jessie Hart White, the daughter of [[Scottish-American]] painter [[William Hart (painter)|William Hart]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Root|first=Robert L.|title=E.B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist|year=1999|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-0-87745-667-4|page=23}}</ref> Elwyn's older brother [[Stanley Hart White]], known as Stan, a professor of [[landscape architecture]] and the inventor of the [[Green wall|vertical garden]], taught E. B. White to read and explore the natural world.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/14601176.2013.807653|title = Stanley Hart White and the question of 'What is Modern?'| journal=Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes| volume=33| issue=3| pages=170–177|year = 2013|last1 = Hindle|first1 = Richard L.|s2cid = 162577251}}</ref>

White attended [[Cornell University]], where he was briefly a private in the [[Student Army Training Corps]] (SATC), created by the [[United States Department of War|US Department of War]] in 1918 to hasten the training of US soldiers for [[World War I]] in Europe. Students continued to take college courses while training for the army. Unlike the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), SATC students were required to live and take all meals on campus and adhered to a strict military schedule of study and training. They also required a pass to go off campus on weekends. Following the end of World War I, the SATC program was disbanded in December 1918, and White did not serve with the active armed forces.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=8 August 2019 |title=United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3M8-B3V8-C |access-date=26 April 2022 |website= FamilySearch.org| publisher= US Veterans Administration }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Anonymous |title=Hopkins and the Great War: Student Army Training Corps |url= https://exhibits.library.jhu.edu/exhibits/show/hopkins-and-the-great-war/homewood-campus/experiences/student-army-training-corps |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=library.jhu.edu| publisher= Johns Hopkins University Library}}</ref><ref name="encyclopediacom">{{cite web| url= https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/e-b-white |title= E.B. White; Personal| website=[[Encyclopedia.com]]| access-date= January 12, 2022}}</ref><ref name="beacham">{{cite web| url= https://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/2021/07/elwyn-brooks-e-b-white-writer-was-born-122-years-ago-today.html |title= Elwyn Brooks 'E.B.' White, writer, was born 122 years ago today |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20221011195348/https://www.beachamjournal.com/journal/2021/07/elwyn-brooks-e-b-white-writer-was-born-122-years-ago-today.html |archivedate=October 11, 2022 | first= Frank |last= Beacham | work= Frank Beacham's Journal; beachamjournal.com| publisher= | access-date= January 12, 2022}}</ref>

In 1921, White graduated from Cornell University with a [[Bachelor of Arts degree]]. At Cornell, he obtained the nickname "Andy", where tradition confers that moniker on any male student whose surname is White after Cornell co-founder [[Andrew Dickson White]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/footsteps/exhibition/buildingcollections/buildingcollections_8.html |title=Building Cornell University Library's Collections: E.B. White '21 |website= library.cornell.edu| publisher= Cornell University Library |access-date=July 11, 2019 |quote= His nickname, 'Andy,' dates from his years at Cornell. According to Cornell tradition, all male students named White were nicknamed after Cornell's first president, Andrew Dickson White.}}</ref> He worked as editor of ''[[The Cornell Daily Sun]]'' with classmate [[Allison Danzig]], who later became a sportswriter for ''[[The New York Times]]''. As a Cornell University student, White was a member of [[Aleph Samach]],<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=Elwyn Brooks|title=Letters of E.B. White|edition=Revised|year=2006|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-06-075708-3 |pages=17–19|author2=Guth, Dorothy Lobrano |author3= White, Martha|chapter=Cornell and the Open Road}}</ref> [[Quill and Dagger]],<ref name="Town &amp; Country 2016 x410">{{cite web | last= Courtney | first= Nadine Jolie |title=Ivy League Secret Societies | website=Town & Country | date=August 9, 2016 | url= https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/g2223/ivy-league-clubs/ | access-date=February 27, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Digital Magazine of Cornell Alumni 2017 j328">{{cite web | title=5 Most Famous Cornell Alumni | website=Digital Magazine of Cornell Alumni | date=July 5, 2017 | url= https://www.cornellalumnimagazine-digital.com/5-famous-cornell-alumni/ | access-date=February 27, 2024}}</ref> and [[Phi Gamma Delta]] fraternity.<ref name= "Cornell Chronicle 2013 q099">{{cite web | title=A room of White's own | website=Cornell Chronicle | date=August 29, 2013 | url=https://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2013/08/room-whites-own | access-date=February 27, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Epstein 1986 t387">{{cite web | last= Epstein | first=Joseph | title=E.B. White, Dark & Lite | website=Commentary Magazine | date=April 1, 1986 | url=https://www.commentary.org/articles/joseph-epstein/e-b-white-dark-lite/ | access-date=February 27, 2024}}</ref>