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Sharp (ROBERT an American educator)

ROBERT, an American educator, born at Lawrenceville, Va., in 1851. He graduated from the Randolph-Macon College, in 1876, and took post-graduate studies at the University of Leipzig. He was professor of English at the Univerand president emeritus from October, sity of Louisiana from 1880 to 1884, and from 1884 to 1913 at Tulane University and wrote on Anglo-Saxon literature. of Louisiana. From that year to 1918 he was president of the latter institution, 1918. He edited several old English texts SHARP

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