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George R. Throop
George R. Throop (1882 – 1949) was the Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1927 until 1944.
Throop was born in Boydsville, Tennessee, in 1882. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from DePauw University in Indiana and his doctorate from Cornell University. He was a distinguished student of the classics and began his academic career at Illinois College in Jacksonville before joining the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as an instructor in Latin and Greek in 1907. Ten years later,
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