Editing Yale University (section)

==In fiction and popular culture==
Yale University is a cultural referent as an institution that produces some of the most elite members of society<ref name="isbn0-8014-3479-3">{{cite book |last=Thalmann |first=William G. |title=The swineherd and the bow: representations of class in the Odyssey |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, N.Y |year=1998 |isbn=0-8014-3479-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/swineherdbowrepr00thal}}</ref> and its grounds, alumni, and students have been prominently portrayed in fiction and U.S. popular culture. For example, [[Owen Johnson (writer)|Owen Johnson]]'s novel ''Stover at Yale'' follows the college career of Dink Stover,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxv/2.20.98/ae/book.html |title=Memoir demonstrates Yalies have always been crazy |first=Jenna |last=Baddeley |publisher=Yale Herald |location=New Haven, Connecticut |access-date=January 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212234834/http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxv/2.20.98/ae/book.html |archive-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref> and [[Frank Merriwell]], the model for all later juvenile sports fiction, plays football, baseball, crew, and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs.<ref>University of Georgia: [http://www.uga.edu/honors/curo/juro/2001_10_13/Turano6.html "The Rise of Intercollegiate Football and Its Portrayal in American Popular Literature."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122054036/http://www.uga.edu/honors/curo/juro/2001_10_13/Turano6.html |date=November 22, 2005}}. Retrieved April 9, 2007.</ref><ref>The text of ''Frank Merriwell at Yale'' is published online by [[Project Gutenberg]], [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11115/11115-h/11115-h.htm Gutenberg.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060223213829/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11115/11115-h/11115-h.htm |date=February 23, 2006}}</ref> Yale University also is mentioned in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. The narrator, Nick Carraway, wrote a series of editorials for the ''Yale News'', and Tom Buchanan was "one of the most powerful [[Defensive end|ends]] that ever played football" for Yale.

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