Editing Harvard University (section)

==In popular culture==
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[[File:Clock Tower University of Puerto Rico-San Marcos-Harvard.jpg|thumb|Tower at the [[University of Puerto Rico]], showing the emblem of Harvard (on right), the oldest in the United States, and that of [[National University of San Marcos]], Lima (left), the oldest in the [[Americas]]]]
Harvard's reputation as a center of elite achievement or elitist privilege has made it a frequent literary and cinematic backdrop. "In the grammar of film, Harvard has come to mean both tradition, and a certain amount of stuffiness," film critic Paul Sherman said in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Sarah |title='Social Network' taps other campuses for Harvard role |website=Boston.com |date=September 24, 2010 |url=https://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2010/09/harvard_at_the_movies_schools.html |quote='In the grammar of film, Harvard has come to mean both tradition, and a certain amount of stuffiness.... Someone from Missouri who has never lived in Boston ... can get this idea that it's all trust fund babies and ivy-covered walls.' |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304232549/http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2010/09/harvard_at_the_movies_schools.html }}</ref>

===Literature===
In contemporary literature, Harvard University features prominently in multiple novels, including:

* ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1929) and ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'' (1936), two novels by [[William Faulkner]], both of which depict Harvard student life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crinkley |first=Richmond |date=July 12, 1962 |title=WILLIAM FAULKNER: The Southern Mind Meets Harvard In the Era Before World War I |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/7/12/william-faulkner-the-southern-mind-meets/ |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=www.thecrimson.com |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301055801/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/7/12/william-faulkner-the-southern-mind-meets/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Of Time and the River]]'' (1935) by [[Thomas Wolfe]], a fictionalized autobiography, depicting Wolfe's [[alter ego]], Eugene Gant, a Harvard student.<ref name="Vaughan Bail-1958">{{Cite journal |last=Vaughan Bail |first=Hamilton |date=1958 |title=Harvard Fiction: Some critical and Bibliographical Notes |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525042.pdf |journal=American Antiquarian Society |pages=346–347 |access-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301055757/https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525042.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Late George Apley]]'' (1937), by 1915 Harvard alumnus [[John P. Marquand]], a novel presenting a satirical view of Harvard men in the early 20th century,<ref name="Vaughan Bail-1958" /> which was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Late George Apley |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807?d=%2F10.1093%2Foi%2Fauthority.20110803100052807 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en |access-date=March 1, 2024 |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401214630/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807?d=/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100052807 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''The Second Happiest Day'' (1953), by John P. Marquand, portrays Harvard during the [[World War II]] generation.{{refn |{{cite book |title=Wrestling with the Angel|last=King|first=Michael|year=2002|page=371|quote=...praised as an iconic chronicle of his generation and his WASP-ish class.}} }}{{refn|{{cite news|title=White Shoe and Weak Will|first=Michael J.|last=Halberstam|date= February 18, 1953 |newspaper=Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/2/18/white-shoe-and-weak-will-pjohn/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126180414/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1953/2/18/white-shoe-and-weak-will-pjohn/ |archive-date=November 26, 2015 |url-status=live |quote=The book is written slickly, but without distinction.... The book will be quick, enjoyable reading for all Harvard men.}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|last=Yardley|first=Jonathan|author-link=Jonathan Yardley|title=Second Reading|date=December 23, 2009|url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203456.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209173651/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203456.html|archive-date=December 9, 2015|url-status=live|quote=&thinsp;'...a balanced and impressive novel...' [is] a judgment with which I [agree].|newspaper=The Washington Post}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|title=Out of a Jitter-and-Fritter World|last=Du Bois|first=William|work=The New York Times|date=February 1, 1953|page=BR5|quote="exhibits Mr. Phillips' talent at its finest"}} }}{{refn |{{cite news|work=Southwest Review|volume=38|page=267|title=John Phillips, The Second Happiest Day|quote=So when the critics say the author of "The Second Happiest Day" is a new Fitzgerald, we think they may be right. }} }}

===Films===
Harvard University features prominently in the plots of multiple major films, including:
* ''[[Love Story (1970 film)|Love Story]]'' (1970), a romance between a wealthy [[Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey|Harvard ice hockey]] player, played by [[Ryan O'Neal]], and a brilliant Radcliffe student of modest means, played by [[Ali MacGraw]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/6/3/never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/ |title=Never Having To Say You're Sorry for 25 Years... |work=Harvard Crimson |date=June 3, 1996 |access-date=September 15, 2013 |archive-date=July 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717001127/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/6/3/never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|{{cite news|title=The Disease: Fatal. The Treatment: Mockery|first=Thomas | last=Vinciguerra |date=August 20, 2010|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/movies/22love.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310224906/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/movies/22love.html |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=August 21, 2010}}}}{{refn|{{cite news|date=February 8, 1996 |work=Harvard University Gazette |title=A Many-Splendored 'Love Story'.}}}}
*''[[The Paper Chase (film)|The Paper Chase]]'' (1973),{{refn|{{cite news|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-paper-chase-at-40/|title=The Paper Chase at 40|date=October 2, 2012|first=Colleen|last= Walsh|work=Harvard Gazette|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203171406/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-paper-chase-at-40/|archive-date=December 3, 2012|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2012}}}} a drama based on the 1971 [[The Paper Chase (Osborn novel)|novel of the same name]] by Harvard alumnus [[John Jay Osborn Jr.]], about a first year [[Harvard Law School]] student facing a demanding [[contract law]] course and professor.
* ''[[A Small Circle of Friends]]'' (1980), a drama about three Harvard University students in the 1960s
* ''[[Prozac Nation (film)|Prozac Nation]]'' (1994), a psychological drama starring [[Christina Ricci]] based on the [[Prozac Nation|novel of the same name]] by [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]], which documents her real life story as a 19-year-old Harvard freshman struggling with [[substance abuse]] and [[Major depressive disorder|clinical depression]].
* ''[[Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story]]'' (2003), a [[Lifetime (TV channel)|Lifetime]] biographical [[television film]], which chronicles the real life story of [[Liz Murray]] (played by [[Thora Birch]]), who overcomes homelessness and a dysfunctional family to gain entry and a scholarship to Harvard after winning a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]''-sponsored essay competition.