Robes
The gown is black and open at the front. Three types of robes are generally used: a short sleeved robe for Certificates, Diplomas and Bachelor degrees, a long sleeved robe for graduates with Professional Doctorates, Juris Doctorates and Masters Degrees and a long sleeved robe with front panels faced with bands of scarlet silk in the case of Doctors of Philosophy. A fourth type is used for higher Doctorates. This robe is made of red cloth with facings in gold silk.
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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)
“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)
“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)