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===Johns Hopkins University===
 
===Johns Hopkins University===
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As a result of his [[father]]'s [[death]], Alger [[inheritance|inherited]] $10,000,<ref>"...provided a $10,000 bequest to each of the Hiss children..." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> the equivalent of more than $200,000 today.<ref>[[#refBLS|BLS]]</ref> After graduation from [http://www.baltimorecitycollege.us/ Baltimore City College] and a year at [[Powder Point Academy]] and the [[Maryland Institute of Art]], Hiss attended [[Baltimore]]'s elite<ref>"Johns Hopkins was an elite university, both socially and academically." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> [http://jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University],<ref>[[#refHUAC48|HUAC 1948]]: 644 (PDF 154). Hiss would not be the university's last link with covert pro-[[Communist]] activities. In 1939-53, [[Owen Lattimore]]&mdash;who, according to the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]], was "from some time beginning in the 1930's, a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy" ([[#refIPR52|S. Rpt. 2050]]: 214-218 [PDF 222-226])&mdash;would be director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins; in 2009, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502359_pf.html Walter Kendall Myers], a retired State Department official who for 20 years had been a faculty member at JHU's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, would be charged with [[espionage]] on behalf of [[Cuba]].</ref> where he was voted "[http://www.orwelltoday.com/hisstruman.jpg best hand-shaker]" in his class.<ref>[[#refRovere96|Rovere 1996]]: 156; ''[http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=18616&startpage=page0000103 The New Yorker]'', May 13, 1950; Evan Thomas, "[http://www.newsweek.com/id/103447 An American Melodrama]," ''Newsweek'', November 25, 1996</ref> As an [[undergraduate]], Hiss' favorite [[instructor|instructors]] included [[Broadus Mitchell]] and [[José Robles]],<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]</ref> while he was drawn to the work of (among others) [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Maxwell Anderson]], [[Sinclair Lewis]] and [[Theodore Dreiser]].<ref>[[#refSmith76|Smith 1976]]: 51-52</ref>
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As a result of his [[father]]'s [[death]], Alger [[inheritance|inherited]] $10,000,<ref>"...provided a $10,000 bequest to each of the Hiss children..." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> the equivalent of more than $200,000 today.<ref>[[#refBLS|BLS]]</ref> After graduation from [http://www.baltimorecitycollege.us/ Baltimore City College] and a year at [[Powder Point Academy]] and the [[Maryland Institute of Art]], Hiss attended [[Baltimore]]'s elite<ref>"Johns Hopkins was an elite university, both socially and academically." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> [http://jhu.edu/ Johns Hopkins University],<ref>[[#refHUAC48|HUAC 1948]]: 644 (PDF 154)</ref> where he was voted "[http://www.orwelltoday.com/hisstruman.jpg best hand-shaker]" in his class.<ref>[[#refRovere96|Rovere 1996]]: 156; ''[http://archives.newyorker.com/default.aspx?iid=18616&startpage=page0000103 The New Yorker]'', May 13, 1950; Evan Thomas, "[http://www.newsweek.com/id/103447 An American Melodrama]," ''Newsweek'', November 25, 1996</ref> As an [[undergraduate]], Hiss' favorite [[instructor|instructors]] included [[Broadus Mitchell]] and [[José Robles]],<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]</ref> while he was drawn to the work of (among others) [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Maxwell Anderson]], [[Sinclair Lewis]] and [[Theodore Dreiser]].<ref>[[#refSmith76|Smith 1976]]: 51-52</ref>
    
===Harvard Law School===
 
===Harvard Law School===
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