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Dodge graduated from Princeton University in 1909. Dodge succeeded his father-in-law, Howard Bliss, as president of the American University in Beirut, then known as the Syrian Protestant College, in 1923. He would serve as president until he retired in 1948; afterwards he taught at several universities. His son, David S. Dodge, would later serve the same role. Dodge wrote a comprehensive history of Al-Azhar Mosque in 1961, a work that remains among the most complete histories of one of the most well known mosques and universities in the Arab world.

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