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SAN JOSE 



For selections from his poems, see Oxford 

 Book oj Canadian Verse. 



SANHEDRIN, sanhe'drin, the supreme coun- 

 cil of the Jews, with authority over religious, 

 civil and criminal cases. At the time of Christ 

 it was made up of seventy-one members; they 

 were presided over by the high priest and met 

 daily near the Temple in Jerusalem. Jesus was 

 tried before the Sanhedrin as ;i false prophet, 

 and Peter, John, Stephen and Paul appeared 

 before it on charges of religious error. After 

 the fall of Jerusalem, in A.D. 70, the Sanhedrin 

 declined in power and finally disappeared. 



SANITARY SCIENCE. The purpose of 

 sanitary health standards, 



k disease and prolong life in general, to 

 make the world a safer and better place for the 

 individual. Centuries ago epidemics of small- 

 pox, cholera, the plague and similar diseases 

 pt over countries and reaped harvests of 

 countless victims because the great foe of these 

 uies of the human race sanitation was 

 not understood. Sanitary science has to do 

 with the ground on which houses are built, 

 methods of ventilation, water supply, sewerage 

 and drainage systems, quarantine, vaccination 

 and other measures for preventing disease or 

 checking its spread, and the personal habits of 

 the individual. These various aspects of the 

 subject are treated in these volumes under the 

 headings listed below. They form a complete 

 survey of the field of sanitary science. 



((dated Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles : 



Adulteration of Food- 

 stuffs and Clothing 

 Antiseptic 

 Aqueduct 



Baths and Bathing 

 Board of Health 

 Drainage 

 Fly 

 Food 



Fumigation 

 Garbage 

 Health 



Health Habits 



Heating and Ventilation 



Hygiene 



Inoculation 



Life Extension 



Mosquito 



Reservoir 



Serum Therapy 



Sewer and Sewerage 



Sewage Disposal on 



Farms 

 Vaccination 



SAN JACINTO, jasin'toh, BATTLE OF, the 

 final battle of the War for Texan independ- 

 ence, fought on the afternoon of April 21, 1836, 

 near San Jacinto Bay, Tex. Santa Anna 

 commanded a Mexican force of about 1,400, 

 and the Texans, numbering about 740, were 

 led by General Sam Houston. The Texans 

 rushed to battle with the cry "Remember the 

 Alamo," and speedily won a complete victory. 

 Orer 1,300 Mexicans were killed, captured or 

 wounded, and Santa Anna was taken prisoner 

 the following day. The Texan loss was only 



two killed and twenty-three wounded. See 

 TEXAS, subhead History; ALAMO. 



SAN JOAQUIN, ho ah keen', an important 

 river of California, which has its source in a 

 small glacier on the eastern slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains. It flows southwestward, 

 then in a northwesterly direction, traversing 

 the fertile San Joaquin Valley, and meets the 

 Sacramento River (which see) about sixty miles 

 northeast of the Francisco, near its mouth on 

 Suisun Bay. Its length is about 350 miles, 125 

 miles of which are in the mountains, and it is 

 navigable throughout the year as far as Stock- 

 ton, a distance of fifty miles;, in winter and 

 spring boats ascend about 200 miles farther. 

 The valley of the San Joaquin, which is about 

 200 miles long and thirty miles wide, produces 

 an abundance of grain and fruit, and is fre- 

 quently called the "granary of California." 



SAN JOSE, hosa', the capital and largest 

 city of Costa Rica, a republic in Central 

 America. San Jose lies in a fertile agricul- 

 tural valley, about midway between the east- 

 ern and western coasts, and is 3,868 feet above 

 sea level. It is the principal station on the 

 transcontinental railroad which has its Pacific 

 terminal at the port of Punta Arenas, and its 

 Atlantic terminal at the port of Limon. The 

 city has many modern features, including ma- 

 cadamized streets and electric lights, and among 

 its fine public buildings are a national library, 

 a national museum, an Institute of Physical 

 Geography, and one of the finest opera houses 

 in Central America. It was founded in 1738 

 and, except at short intervals, has been the 

 capital since ^1823. Population, 1913, 34,784. 



SAN JOSE, hosa', CAL., the county seat of 

 Santa Clara County, is a health resort and the 

 chief city in the fine fruit region of the Santa 

 Clara Valley. It is forty-seven miles southeast 

 of San Francisco, seven miles south of San 

 Francisco Bay, with which it has water con~ 

 nection, and on several branches of the South' 

 ern Pacific Railroad. The area exceeds eight 

 square miles. In 1910 the population was 28,- 

 946; in 1916 it was 38,902 (Federal estimate). 



San Jose is the seat of the University of the 

 Pacific (Methodist Episcopal), the College of 

 Notre Dame (Roman Catholic), a state nor- 

 mal school, and a number of private institu- 

 tions. It has a fine stone Federal building, 

 which cost $200,000, a courthouse, city hall, 

 Hall of Justice, Hall of Records, Carnegie Li- 

 brary, Y. M. C. A. and Y, W. C. A. buildings, 

 and the county and private hospitals. At Alum 

 Rock Park (1,000 acres), seven miles distant, 



