ABSTRACT
The applause—in, of course, varying degrees of enthusiasm but always in some measure of civility and courtesy—was bestowed unfailingly at the end of a term when the course was over and the last syllable of the last professorial lecture had been heard. Berkeley students were responsive not only in the high-grade work they turned out in exams and papers but also in a way that is, so far as the author have been able to find out, unique in American higher education. He referring to the custom—a fairly old tradition by the time He got to Berkeley—of applause, real applause, the hand-clapping kind. He speak from personal experience when he say that it was sweet to join the dozens or hundreds, as the case might be, in highly spirited applause for a course solid in substance and eloquently, even feelingly given during the semester.
