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Boyhood memories of a California pioneering family; Ph.D. from Oxford, 1923; UC Berkeley in the 1920s: philosophy department, neopositivist movement, faculty; the budget committee; the loyalty oath; assistant directorship of the Los Alamos project, 1943: problems of organization and secrecy, Robert Oppenheimer; graduate deanship. Appended letter to Stephen C. Pepper, September 18, 1923, on the Berkeley fire.