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The gowns Columbia has used since 1963, designed by Jacques Barzun, have a pair of crowns below the yoke; on the bachelor's and master's gown they are embroidered onto a tab while they are embroidered directly into the velvet facing of the doctoral gown. [58] Pennsylvania's distinctive doctoral gown was first used in 1964.
Master's gowns are differentiated from Bachelor's gowns by their oblong sleeves, which open at the wrists. [7] Doctoral gowns have facings of black velvet, with three black velvet chevrons on each sleeve; their crowns are embroidered directly onto the facing. The velvet chevrons were formerly colored to indicate the wearer's degree. [8]
The school's first commencement ceremony took place in 1892 and was a very low-key affair. [2] It was not until 1899 that a student at Stanford convinced her classmates to wear caps and gowns at the annual graduation ceremony. [3] They remained the only ones to use academic dress until 1903 when eight law graduates adopted it. [4]
The master's gown is of the Intercollegiate Code master's pattern, which is black silk, or worsted stuff, with long closed sleeves. The doctoral gown is either crimson or black silk, with facings continuing around the yoke in black velvet. The sleeves are trimmed with three black velvet bars with pointed ends, and crow's feet befitting the subject.
BA/BSc - Black gown. Hood in dove grey cloth unlined, edged with Spectrum blue taffeta. [2] Undergraduate Master's (MChem, MEng, MMath, MPhys) dress is a black postgraduate gown. Hood in dove grey unlined, edged with Spectrum blue taffeta with a thin gold cord sewn to the leading edge of the hood. Postgraduate Master's Dress is a black gown.
With their festal gowns, Doctors of Divinity wear a black velvet cap, and Doctors in other Faculties wear a wide-brimmed round velvet bonnet with gold string and tassels, known as a Tudor bonnet, instead of a mortarboard, though they may choose to wear a square cap with a festal gown if they are taking part in a ceremony in the Senate House.
Doctors of Philosophy (Ph.D.s), Science, Literature, and Civil Law wore the university's scarlet full dress. The doctoral full dress was the equivalent of the academic dress of the University of Cambridge for its higher doctorates, rather than for its Ph.D.s. [9] It was originally made of scarlet cloth, "faced with silk of the same colour as ...
Registrar: A gown of black corded silk of the pattern of the Masters’ gown, but braided on the facings and over the armholes. All Officers wear academic caps of the customary pattern covered with black velvet; the Chancellor's cap being distinguished by a gold tassel and gold braid binding, and the Vice-Chancellor's by gold braid binding.