Features
The basic colour of the hat is black. However, in Finland, other colors are found, as follows:
- Doctors of Fine arts use dark blue;
- Doctors of Law use crimson;
- Doctors of Medicine and Dentistry use dark green;
- Doctors of Military Science use grey;
- Doctors of Music use sky blue;
- Doctors of Theology use purple.
Swedish doctoral hats are always black.
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Famous quotes containing the word features:
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother’s face,
Her aspect and her attitude.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
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