ABSTRACT
San Francisco's greatest gifts to the Berkeley campus were simply its libraries, museums, art galleries, theaters, opera and concert halls, and its abundant symbols of wealth and culture. The tie between the City and campus had been tightened in 1906 when thousands of Berkeley students and faculty came to the help of San Francisco in the throes of the earthquake and fire. Considering the complex of forces involved in Berkeley's campus bohemianism, it is as though Hegel's "cunning of reason" in history was operative. It was Berkeley that came to the rescue, that provided habitat and also inspiration to bohemians old and new. By the Second World War the old bohemianism, the writers and artists colonies, were in full retreat, headed for extinction. Student bohemians mingled freely with student revolutionaries on the campus, with Eshleman Hall, the student publications building, the commonest center of both groups. Student bohemians lived anywhere and everywhere they could conceivably afford.
