He attended the elite Horace Mann School in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard College in 1948.

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The son of a real estate investor, Spitzer was raised in the upscale Riverdale section of the Bronx, attended the Horace Mann School, and collected a B.

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"We feel pain and regret for anyone who reports to have been harmed while a student at Horace Mann School, " board Chairman Steven Friedman wrote in a public letter in August.

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Many residents are also attracted to the area by the proximity of several well-regarded private schools, including the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Riverdale Country Day School and the Horace Mann School.

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He graduated from Horace Mann School, received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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Eliot Spitzer grew up in the tony Riverdale section of the Bronx, where he attended the Horace Mann prep school.

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When I was in high school, at Horace Mann, in the Bronx, in the nineteen-seventies, everyone took pride in the brilliant eccentricity of our teachers.

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Although investigators were told that abuse allegations were brought "to the attention of school officials without law enforcement being notified" at Horace Mann, that is legal under New York's current law.

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