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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 [[#refBLS|more than $200,000]] today. After graduation from [http://www.baltimorecitycollege.us/ Baltimore City College] and a year at [[Powder Point Academy]] and the [[Maryland Institute of Art]],<ref>"1921-1922: Attended Powder Point Academy, Duxbury, Mass., and Maryland Institute of Art." [[#refZeligs80|Zeligs Papers]]</ref> Hiss attended [[Baltimore]]'s elite<ref>"Johns Hopkins was an elite university, both socially and academically." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> [[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's favorite [[instructor|instructors]] included the [[Socialist]] [[Broadus Mitchell]] and [[Stalinist]] [[José Robles]],<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 310 (PDF 4)</ref> while he was drawn to the work of (among others) the [[atheist]] [[H.L. Mencken]], socialists [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Maxwell Anderson]] and [[Sinclair Lewis]], and the [[Communist]] [[Theodore Dreiser]]<ref>[[#refSmith76|Smith 1976]]: 51-52</ref> (the last two also [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881224,00.html famous atheists]).
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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 [[#refBLS|more than $200,000]] today. After graduation from [http://www.baltimorecitycollege.us/ Baltimore City College] and a year at [[Powder Point Academy]] and the [[Maryland Institute of Art]],<ref>"1921-1922: Attended Powder Point Academy, Duxbury, Mass., and Maryland Institute of Art." [[#refZeligs80|Zeligs Papers]]</ref> Hiss attended [[Baltimore]]'s elite<ref>"Johns Hopkins was an elite university, both socially and academically." [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 9</ref> [[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's favorite [[instructor|instructors]] included the [[Socialist]] [[Broadus Mitchell]] and [[Stalinist]] [[José Robles]],<ref>[[#refRicher04|Richer 2004]]: 310 (PDF 4).Robles would later go fight in Spain under the [[Soviets]]; Hiss, who apparently knew Robles well enough to spend time at his home ([[#refTHiss77| T. Hiss 1977]]: 37-38) would say he too considered joining ([[#refSmith76|Smith 1976]]: 104) the forces characterized as "[[Stalin]]'s foreign legion." (Herbert Romerstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=D5koGQAACAAJ Heroic Victims: Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War]'' [Washington: Council for the Defense of Freedom, 1994] ISBN 9994812505). "[T]he [[Nazi-Soviet Pact]] and the Lincolns' willingness to [http://www.alba-valb.org/resources/lessons/world-war-ii-letters-from-the-abraham-lincoln-brigade/before-pearl-harbor change their position on the antifascist struggle in order to conform to Soviet policy] would forever cast a shadow on their legacy, as it would with the other elements of the Communist Left."</ref> while he was drawn to the work of (among others) the [[atheist]] [[H.L. Mencken]], socialists [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Maxwell Anderson]] and [[Sinclair Lewis]], and the [[Communist]] [[Theodore Dreiser]]<ref>[[#refSmith76|Smith 1976]]: 51-52</ref> (the last two also [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881224,00.html famous atheists]).
    
===Harvard Law School===
 
===Harvard Law School===
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