Kevin D. Hoover wrote:  
  
> To answer Ross:  I was not around -- despite what my daughters think   
> -- in 1936, but I know that Berkeley changed from quarters to   
> semesters in the late 1980s or early 1990s, so that in all probability   
> Berkeley was on quarters in the 1930s.  
  
When that change occurred it was a return to semesters.  Berkeley went   
to quarters c. 1966, as I recall, though I don't know how long the   
semester system had been in use at that point.  I would think that the   
Registrar's Office could provide that information.  
  
Richard Roehl