Cal students participate in first recorded use of card stunts in college sports at Big Game. David Prescott Barrows becomes President. California Memorial Stadium built following statewide fundraising drive. 1924 Haviland Hall built to house School of Education with gift of Hannah N. Haviland. 1927 Hearst Gymnasium for Women constructed, using gift of William Randolph Hearst.
Cal crew wins the first of three Olympic gold medals in Amsterdam.
Ernest O. Lawrence invents cyclotron at Berkeley. Robert Gordon Sproul becomes President. Professor Lawrence awarded Nobel Prize in Physics, first of 16 faculty Nobel laureates. 1941 Plutonium discovered in Gilman Hall by professors Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and two colleagues. 1945 United Nations Charter translated, designed, and printed in four days at Berkeley in time for signing by delegates to historic session in San Francisco.