ABSTRACT
San Francisco's second considerable gift to Berkeley was the spirit of revolution. The first was the Faculty Revolt of 1920, organized against an administration that combined flabbiness with periodic authoritarianism. The second revolution in order of time is that of the 1930s, which the author has just identified and to which he will return momentarily. The third Berkeley revolution was faculty again. This broke out in the fall of 1949 and lasted for close to three years. Fourth in the procession of Berkeley revolutions was the most famous, and most durable, of them all: the Student Revolution of the 1960s; the revolution that began at Sather Gate in early December 1964 and, before it had run its course, spread throughout the Western world. The sheer number of revolutions at Berkeley suggests the existence of some kind of revolutionary yeast ever ready to rise, no matter what a given cause may be.
