ABSTRACT
Nineteen-thirteen was both a good year and a bad year for Los Angeles. Berkeley came early into the author life. Its academic offerings were as fine as those of Maricopa and Santa Cruz. Berkeley came early into his life. He reached twelve shortly after settling in Santa Cruz and promptly joined the Boy Scouts, the fulfillment of a dream that had begun with reading Boy's Life each month in Maricopa. For the college bound there were four years of Latin—Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil after the first year. High school was for him what it has been for millions of other Americans, a profound emotional experience as well as an intellectual regimen. He had to wait for Berkeley and the University Library where it was kept in a special section known as Case O and not available to ordinary borrowers, before he at last got to the ineffable Fanny.
