Robes
The robes are Cambridge style. Black robes are worn by Bachelors, Honours and Masters holders. All Doctorate holders wear royal blue Cambridge doctorate gowns. Professional Doctorates wear gowns with facings and linings in red. Doctorates of Philosophy wear gowns with facings and linings of red faille. The University offers three types of honorary doctorates: An Honorary Doctorate, An Honorary Doctor honoris causa, and an Honorary Doctor of the University. The doctorate robes are distinguished by their facings. Honorary doctorates have facings and linings of blue satin, Honorary Doctorates honoris causa are similar with the addition of a gold edging stripe in satin, and Honorary Doctors of the University have linings and facings in gold satin.
Members of the University Council wear black Cambridge style masters gowns. The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor wear robes of light weight dark blue wool, trimmed and lined with gold or silver braid respectively.
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Famous quotes containing the word robes:
“No beauty she doth miss,
When all her robes are on;
But Beauty’s self she is,
When all her robes are gone.”
—Unknown. My Love in Her Attire (l. 5–8)
“If the physicians had not their cassocks and their mules, if the doctors had not their square caps and their robes four times too wide, they would never had duped the world, which cannot resist so original an appearance.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,—can go far and live long.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)