ABSTRACT
Good lecturing had been around for a long time at Berkeley when the author first went to class. There were still people around, albeit creakily in the 1930s, who remembered hearing the great Joseph Le Conte in his course in Natural Philosophy and the equally great Bernard Moses in what were then called the moral sciences, later the social sciences. The lecture was a veritable art form at Berkeley. The lecture, no matter how large, seemed to the author a crucial element in the atmosphere of freedom of learning at Berkeley. Lecturing was held in high regard by both students and faculty at Berkeley. By the 1920s the Berkeley chemistry department was ranked among the top three departments in the country and unquestionably the first in physical chemistry. George Guttridge in history was one of the most respected lecturers on the faculty.
