JORDAN

sacred riv.; Palestine (32° rises on slopes of Mt. Hermon and unites with Banias and Leddan about 83° 14’ N.; river then flows in s. direction and enters Sea of Galilee at its N. extremity, emerging at other end and flowing still s. till it empties itself into. Dead Sea; length, 100 m. In World ‘ War, Brit. aeroplanes dropped bombs on motor-boat sheds and troops at mouth of Jordan on Dec. 15, 1917, and the closing of the river pa ages in Sept. 1917 was a great factor in Allen by’s succe es against Turks. See PanzsTINE. Fr, politician: urged moderate reform at Revolution; proscribed, 1797; led constitutional party at Restoration. JORDAN » DAVID STARR (1851-), an American educator and writer, 6. in Cornell University, in 1872, was profe or of natural history at Lombard University the year following; principal of the Applet on (Wis.), Collegiate Institute, during 1873-4; teacher in the Indianapolis (Ind.), high schools, during 1874-5; profe or of biology at Butler University, during 1875-9; profe or of zoology @t Indiana University, during 1879-85, then president until 1891. From that latter year until 1913 he was presi~ dent of Leland Stanford Jr. University, chancellor three years after that, and since 1916 president emeritus. Prof, Jordan stands in the very foremost ranks of American educators and enjoys an international reputation. He has written many books on the natural sciences, politics, sociology and kindred subjects. Among these are: A Manual of Vertebraite Animals of the Northern United States, 1876; Footnotes to Hvolution, 1898; Imperial Democracy, 1899; The Philos ophy of Hope, 1902: A Guide to the Study of Fishes, 1905; College and the Man, 1907; The Religion of a Sensible American, 1909; The Unseen Empire, 1912; Democracy and World Relations, 1918; Fo it Fishes of Southern California, 1819, and Genera of Fishes, 1920.