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...pictures. Briefly he joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. But how could his neat landscapes compete with the bogus medievalism of Burne-Jones' Sir Galahad or the religiosity of Holman Hunt's The Light of the World, in which a mournful schoolmaster wearing a mortarboard of thorns drew devout thousands to the doors of British and U.S. museums...
...example of Joyce's bemused fascination with philology, his self-consciousness about language, which his own medium could not always represent so strikingly. Likewise, when Molly is contemplating the nature of males, she imagines (and we see) Leopold working some trigonometry problem on a blackboard, attired in mortarboard. He finishes, surveys it smugly, and writes C.O.D. instead of Q.E.D. at the bottom...
Ritchie produced a second Tiger tally at 4:12 of the third period, but Parrot donned his mortarboard-trick two minutes later with a duplication of Garrity's feat...
Then it came. "How to Finish High School at Home." 8 1/2" x 11". 24 pp. With serene confidence, a young man and a young woman, dressed in black mortarboard and academic robes, stared at me from the cover. They have seen what it's like, I thought, the sock-hops and the hoop frays, the twirling batons and the blaring bands. Tears welled to my eyes as I opened the booklet...
...years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy. Last week, at graduation, Columbia showed its new doctoral dress. Slate grey with a facing of black velvet replaces the black that is customary in the U.S. A four-cornered soft tarn with a gold tassel replaces the stiff mortarboard. The university thoughtfully advised academic plumage-watchers to note the border of the hood for "the color indicating the discipline to which the degree pertains: arts and letters, including journalism, white; theology, scarlet; law, purple; medicine, green; philosophy, dark blue; science, yellow; architecture and the fine arts, brown; music, pink...