Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...GOWN.1. Pattern - The form ordinarily worn, with pointed sleeves, for the bachelor's degree; with long, closed sleeves, for the master's degree; with round, open sleeves, for the doctor's degree...
...Material - Worsted stuff for the bachelor's degree; silk for the master's and doctor's degrees. The color shall be black...
...Trimmings - For the bachelor's and master's degrees the gowns are to be untrimmed. For the doctor's degree the gown is to be faced down the front with black velvet, with bars of the same across the sleeves, if desired, or the facings and cross bars may be of velvet of the same color as the binding or edging of the hood, being distinctive of the Faculty to which the degree pertains...
...Length - The length and form of the hood will indicate the degree, as follows: For the bachelor's degree the length shall be three-fourths that of the master's degree. The master's degree shall be the customary length, not exceeding four feet, and the doctor's degree shall be of the same length but have panels on the sides...
...passing of a statute in regard to caps, hoods and gowns as academic costumes. The statute had been agreed upon by representatives from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and one or two other colleges - Harvard not included - and is recommended to all institutions of learning in the country. Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, and members of the Faculty have distinguishing gowns, the latter also having differences of color, thus: Faculty and Art Letters, white; Faculty of Theology, scarlet; Faculty of Law, purple; Faculty of Medicine, green; Faculty of Philosophy, dark blue; Faculty of Science, gold yellow; Faculty of Fine...