Robes
All robes worn are Cambridge style. Black Bachelor gowns are worn by all below the rank of Master. Senior Fellows of the University however also wear these gowns.
Masters style Gowns in black are worn by Master degree holders, the Yeoman Bedell and members of the University Council. Councillors’ robes have facings in rifle green. The Bedell wears a Councillors’ robe with black ornaments.
All Doctoral degrees wear doctoral robes. The gowns of honorary Doctorates are in rifle green. Doctorates of philosophy wear a black robe with facings and sleeve linings in new red. Professional Doctorates wear a black robe with sleeve linings and facings in the colour of the faculty the degree was awarded in.
The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor wear black woollen robes with trimmings in either gold or silver 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)
“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)
“The archbishop is away. The church is gray.
He has left his robes folded in camphor
And, dressed in black, he walks
Among fireflies.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)