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== Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities ==
 
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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 the committed [[Stalinist]]<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> [[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> (who would go on to serve in [[Spain]] as a [[Colonel]]<ref>Jeffrey Meyers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cuM6RAO9DxUC Hemingway: A Biography]'' (Da Capo Press, 1999), ISBN 0306808900, p. 307; John P. Diggins, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=inoVf72P4yIC Up from Communism]'' (Columbia University Press, 1994) ISBN 0231084889, p. 90</ref> in the Red Army<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> and [http://ducts.org/06_06/html/reviews/healy.html interpreter for] [[General]] [http://www.latfilma.lv/d/106/ Jānis] [http://milparade.udm.ru/25/096.htm Bērziņš]<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575, p. 156; James R. Mellow, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LQptupxaGwsC Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences]'' (Da Capo Press, 1993) ISBN 020162620, p. 506; cf. Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S0TLPvG_PwYC Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2008) ISBN 1412807336, p. 233</ref> head of [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]]),<ref>Hugh Thomas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6I126r99NQ4C The Spanish Civil War]'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) ISBN 0671758764, p. 380; Burnett Bolloten, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=-VarDLHA3_YC The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution]'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991) ISBN 0807819069, pp. 307-308, 310, 312, 838 n. 11.</ref> and the well-known socialist<ref>"... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> [[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> Another JHU alumnus, [[Sidney Offit]], would later write that he became Mitchell's "radical protegé in waiting."<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> (Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'")<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref> In addition, [[Owen Lattimore]], who was identified in a unanimous report of the bipartisan [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy,"<ref>[http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf S. Rpt. 2050: Institute of Pacific Relations], 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to S. Res. 366, 1952 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 214-218 (PDF pp. 222-226)</ref> was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53. Most recently, State Department official [[Walter Kendall Myers]], sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage,<ref>Spencer S. Hsu, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071600684_pf.html Walter Myers, State Dept. analyst who spied for Cuba, gets life; wife 6 years]," ''Washington Post'', July 17, 2010, p. B1</ref> 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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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 the committed [[Stalinist]]<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> [[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> (who would go on to serve in [[Spain]] as a [[Colonel]]<ref>Jeffrey Meyers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cuM6RAO9DxUC Hemingway: A Biography]'' (Da Capo Press, 1999), ISBN 0306808900, p. 307; John P. Diggins, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=inoVf72P4yIC Up from Communism]'' (Columbia University Press, 1994) ISBN 0231084889, p. 90</ref> in the Red Army<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> and [http://ducts.org/06_06/html/reviews/healy.html interpreter for] [[General]] [http://www.latfilma.lv/d/106/ Jānis] [http://milparade.udm.ru/25/096.htm Bērziņš]<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575, p. 156; James R. Mellow, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LQptupxaGwsC Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences]'' (Da Capo Press, 1993) ISBN 020162620, p. 506; cf. Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S0TLPvG_PwYC Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2008) ISBN 1412807336, p. 233</ref> head of [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]]),<ref>Hugh Thomas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6I126r99NQ4C The Spanish Civil War]'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) ISBN 0671758764, p. 380; Burnett Bolloten, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=-VarDLHA3_YC The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution]'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991) ISBN 0807819069, pp. 307-308, 310, 312, 838 n. 11.</ref> and the well-known socialist<ref>"... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> [[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> Another JHU alumnus, [[Sidney Offit]], would later write that he became Mitchell's "radical protegé in waiting."<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> (Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'")<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref> In addition, [[Owen Lattimore]], who was identified in a unanimous report of the bipartisan [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy,"<ref>[http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf S. Rpt. 2050: Institute of Pacific Relations], 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to S. Res. 366, 1952 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 214-218 (PDF pp. 222-226)</ref> was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53. Most recently, State Department official [[Walter Kendall Myers]], sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage,<ref>Spencer S. Hsu, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071600684_pf.html Walter Myers, State Dept. analyst who spied for Cuba, gets life; wife 6 years]," ''Washington Post'', July 17, 2010, p. B1</ref> 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>
  
 
== Schools Centers Affiliates ==
 
== Schools Centers Affiliates ==

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Johns Hopkins University
JHUSeal.gif
City: Baltimore, Maryland
Type: Private
Sports: baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, water polo, wrestling[1]
Colors: blue, black (athletic)/gold, sable[2]
Mascot: Blue Jays
Website: http://www.jhu.edu/

The Johns Hopkins University (or JHU) is a private university in Maryland, which was founded as the nation's first research university[3] in 1876, under President Daniel Coit Gilman.[4] It is named after merchant Johns Hopkins, who died in 1873, leaving $7 million dollars to build a university and hospital in his name (the hospital opened in 1889).[3]

The school ranked #14 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[5] Johns Hopkins ranks first among United States universities in receipt of federal research and development funds.[6] The School of Medicine ranks first among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the National Institutes of Health.[6] The Bloomberg School of Public Health is first among all public health schools in research support from the federal government.[6]

History

Johns Hopkins

After Hopkins's incorporation of both a university and hospital in 1867, George Peabody proposed the establishment of an institute in Baltimore to be comprised of a library, art gallery, academy of music, and a lecture series. The building of this school was completed in 1861, but the Civil War delayed its opening.[7]

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.[7] Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.[7]

Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities

Among JHU's more notable alumni was Alger Hiss, who attended in 1922-26.[8] According to Hiss, his favorite[9] mentors at Hopkins included the committed Stalinist[10] José Robles[11] (who would go on to serve in Spain as a Colonel[12] in the Red Army[13] and interpreter for General Jānis Bērziņš[14] head of Soviet military intelligence),[15] and the well-known socialist[16] Broadus Mitchell.[17] Another JHU alumnus, Sidney Offit, would later write that he became Mitchell's "radical protegé in waiting."[18] (Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,[19] Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of Karl Marx were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'")[20] In addition, Owen Lattimore, who was identified in a unanimous report of the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee as "a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy,"[21] was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53. Most recently, State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage,[22] was for 20 years a faculty member at JHU's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.[23]

Schools Centers Affiliates

The Johns Hopkins University has 10 divisions:

  • Homewood Campus
    • Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
    • School of Education
    • Whiting School of Engineering
  • East Baltimore Campus
    • School of Medicine
    • School of Nursing
    • Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Downtown Baltimore
    • Carey Business School
    • The Peabody Institute
  • Washington, D.C.
    • Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
  • Laurel, Md.
    • Applied Physics Laboratory

Athletics

Most of JHU's teams are in Division 3, however the Johns Hopkins Division 1 men's lacrosse team has won 9 championships and finished second 8 times.[24]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Official Athletic Site of Johns Hopkins University (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
  2. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 About Us (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins Institutions.
  4. ↑ A Brief History Of Jhu (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins University.
  5. ↑ National Universities: Top Schools (English) (HTML). US News.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Facts At A Glance (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins University.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chronology (English) (HTML). Johns Hopkins University.
  8. ↑ Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress, Espionage in the U.S. Government: Hearings under Public Law 601 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 644 (PDF 154)
  9. ↑ 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)
  10. ↑ Jason Powell, Review: The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006
  11. ↑ Tony Hiss, Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), ISBN 039524899X
  12. ↑ Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography (Da Capo Press, 1999), ISBN 0306808900, p. 307; John P. Diggins, Up from Communism (Columbia University Press, 1994) ISBN 0231084889, p. 90
  13. ↑ Jason Powell, Review: The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006
  14. ↑ Paul Johnson, Intellectuals (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575, p. 156; James R. Mellow, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (Da Capo Press, 1993) ISBN 020162620, p. 506; cf. Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War (Transaction Publishers, 2008) ISBN 1412807336, p. 233
  15. ↑ Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) ISBN 0671758764, p. 380; Burnett Bolloten, The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991) ISBN 0807819069, pp. 307-308, 310, 312, 838 n. 11.
  16. ↑ "... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, Distorted Reflections, The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth
  17. ↑ "My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell..." Alger Hiss, Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism (Alger Hiss papers, Small Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library)
  18. ↑ Mitchell "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting." Sidney Offit, Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72
  19. ↑ [Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955
  20. ↑ Sidney Offit, Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14
  21. ↑ S. Rpt. 2050: Institute of Pacific Relations, 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to S. Res. 366, 1952 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 214-218 (PDF pp. 222-226)
  22. ↑ Spencer S. Hsu, "Walter Myers, State Dept. analyst who spied for Cuba, gets life; wife 6 years," Washington Post, July 17, 2010, p. B1
  23. ↑ Del Quentin Wilber and Mary Beth Sheridan, "State Dept. Retiree Accused of Spying: Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say," Washington Post, June 6, 2009
  24. ↑ History - Past Champions (English) (HTML). NCAA Sports.

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