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Dr. Robert Sharp. «C% OBERT SHARP is a native of Brunswick County, Virginia. His «l- Sg parents were Richard Henry Sharp and Lucy Hardy Sharp. They k were of that fine old English stock which has done so much for Virginia and for the whole nation. He went to Randolph-Macon College, where he graduated with high honors. He received his degree of Master of Arts there also, in 1876. Dr. Sharp deter- mined to continue his studies, and so he went to Leipzig, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1879. In 1881, at Spartanbm-g, South Car- olina, he married Blanche Herndon. The year after he left Leipzig, Dr. Sharp was appointed to the Chair of English in the University of Louisiana, which, four years later, was changed to Tulane University. For almost twentj -five years Dr. Sharp has devoted his best eft ' orts to the students of Tulane, and there are a large number of them who will attest his refining infliaence. While Dr. Sharp has been devoting his main energies to his class-room, he has still found time to do some outside work. All his writings are noted for their deep and carefiil scholari hip, as of course we know they would be, if they are Dr. Sharp ' s. His style is simple -and direct, but with unusual clesirness and faithful- ness to the exact shade of thought, fie has edited the Beowulf, the great Anglo- Saxon epic, and the Fight at Finsburli (with Prof. James H. Harrison). His edition of the Beowulf was a notable one, and has been praised by scholars; among them, Mr. Jusserand in his latest work. This edition of the Beowulf is still used in Oxford, although several other editions have been published since. Recently, Dr. Sharp has been the editor of Shakespeare ' s Merchant of Venice, a book noted for its accurate and painstaking scholarship. Besides this, he wrote the articles on Anglo-Saxon and Demosthenes in Warner ' s Liirary of the World ' s Best Literature. As a teacher. Dr. Sharp has an unusual influence over his students. He is a man of profound learning, though on account of his modesty it usually takes us some time to find it out. He is open-minded and fair, willing to see and consider ouB way of looking at a subject. He never gives up a boy, believing there is ability and good in every one somewhere: and by his sympathy and helpfulness, he usually brings this good. He so genuinely cares for our success that he seems more an adviser and friend than an instructor. We feel ashamed not to try and besides we want to do our duty anyhow. The result is, as everyone who has been taught by Dr. Sharp will tell you, that he succeeds in giving to his students in some degree his own enthusiasm and fine feeling for literature and scholarship. Dr. Sharp also influences his students in another way, — by his personality, by his character. He is so conscientious and sincere; he does not spare himself when he sees his dutj ' . No person can be with him for any length of time with- out realizing how much truth and honor mean to him. He is always courteous and thoughtful of others. Politeness, he says, is an attitude of heart, and it certainly is in his own ease. He is courteous because it is his nature, because he has a kind heart. The students see all this and it has its effect. We may sum his influence by saying that Dr. Sharp is a scholar, and, in the fullest and truest sense of the word, he is our ideal of what it really means to be a gentleman.
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This, the Ninth Tulane Anniiah is rGSpe ct fully cJecfieafec to KOBBRT S ARI f rofessor of Hns Iish in the- lIni ' eTSity ' .
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