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Johns Hopkins University (view source)
Revision as of 19:11, October 5, 2009
, 19:11, October 5, 2009added section on Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities
Johns Hopkins's first [[African American]] student came in 1887, when Kelly Miller sought a degree in [[mathematics]]. The school increased tuition by 25% two years later, due to the economic crisis, and Miller was forced to leave. Years later his former mathematics professor Simon Newcomb and President Gilman recommend Miller for a faculty position at [[Howard University]], his undergraduate alma mater, where Miller subsequently served for many years as professor of mathematics and dean of arts and sciences.<ref name="timeline" /> Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.<ref name="timeline" />
Johns Hopkins's first [[African American]] student came in 1887, when Kelly Miller sought a degree in [[mathematics]]. The school increased tuition by 25% two years later, due to the economic crisis, and Miller was forced to leave. Years later his former mathematics professor Simon Newcomb and President Gilman recommend Miller for a faculty position at [[Howard University]], his undergraduate alma mater, where Miller subsequently served for many years as professor of mathematics and dean of arts and sciences.<ref name="timeline" /> Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.<ref name="timeline" />
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== Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities ==
Among JHU's more notable alumni was [[Alger Hiss]], who attended in 1922-26.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress, [http://ia360609.us.archive.org/1/items/hearingsregardin1948unit/hearingsregardin1948unit_bw.pdf Espionage in the U.S. Government: Hearings under Public Law 601] (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 644 (PDF 154)</ref> According to Hiss, his favorite<ref>Matthew Richer, "The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> mentors at Hopkins included [[José Robles]]<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SPV2AAAAMAAJ Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss]'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), ISBN 039524899X</ref> and [[Broadus Mitchell]],<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell..." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref> whose later "radical protegé in waiting" would be [[Sidney Offit]].<ref>Mitchell "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting." Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> In addition, [[Owen Lattimore]] was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53, while [[Walter Kendall Myers]] was for 20 years a faculty member at JHU's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.<ref>Del Quentin Wilber and Mary Beth Sheridan, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502359_pf.html State Dept. Retiree Accused of Spying: Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say]," ''Washington Post'', June 6, 2009</ref>
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