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David Starr Jordan January 19, — September 19, was the founding president of Stanford University , serving from to He was an ichthyologist during his research career.

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Prior to serving as president of Stanford University , he served as president of Indiana University from to Jordan was also a strong supporter of eugenics , and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration", asserting that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an antimilitarist since he believed that war killed off the best members of the gene pool , and he initially opposed American involvement in World War I.

His parents made an unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school. He said that it was in honor of his mother's devotion to the minister Thomas Starr King. He was inspired by Louis Agassiz to pursue his studies in ichthyology. He was part of the first freshman class of undergraduates at Cornell University , where he graduated in [ 5 ] with a master's degree in botany.

In his autobiography, The Days of a Man , he wrote, "During the three years which followed [my entrance as a 'belated' freshman in March ], I completed all the requirements for a degree of Bachelor of Science, besides about two year of advanced work in Botany. Taking this last into consideration, the faculty conferred on me at graduation in June , the advanced degree of Master of Science instead of the conventional Bachelor's Degree I was placed, quite innocently, in the position of being the only graduate of Cornell to merge two degrees into one.

Jordan initially taught natural history courses at several small Midwestern colleges and secondary schools, including at Indianapolis High School. Jordan also holds an honorary PhD , [ 12 ] [ 13 ] awarded to him by Butler University in In , Jordan was accepted into the natural history faculty of Indiana University Bloomington , where he served as a professor of zoology.