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Johns Hopkins University
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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)/old gold, sable[2]
Mascot: Blue Jays
Endowment: $2.6 billion[3]
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[4] in 1876, under President Daniel Coit Gilman.[5] It is named after merchant Johns Hopkins, who died in 1873 and left $7 million to build a university and hospital in his name (the hospital opened in 1889).[4]

The school ranked #14 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[6] Johns Hopkins ranks first among United States universities in receipt of federal research and development funds.[7] The School of Medicine ranks first among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the National Institutes of Health.[7] The Bloomberg School of Public Health is first among all public health schools in research support from the federal government.[7]

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.[8] It was incorporated as a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1977.

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.[8] Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.[8]

Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities

Among JHU's more notable alumni was Alger Hiss, who attended in 1922-26.[9] According to Hiss, his favorite[10] mentors at Hopkins included the committed Stalinist[11] José Robles[12] (who would go on to serve in Spain as a Colonel[13] in the Red Army[11] 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 in 2010 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 III; however, the Johns Hopkins Division I 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). Johns Hopkins. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
  2. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions (English). Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
  3. ↑ 2011 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. Retrieved on November 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 About Us (English). Johns Hopkins Institutions.
  5. ↑ A Brief History Of Jhu (English). Johns Hopkins University.
  6. ↑ National Universities: Top Schools (English). US News.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Facts At A Glance (English). Johns Hopkins University.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chronology (English). Johns Hopkins University.
  9. ↑ 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)
  10. ↑ 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)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jason Powell, Review: The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles, eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006
  12. ↑ Tony Hiss, Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), ISBN 039524899X
  13. ↑ 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
  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). NCAA Sports.

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