Some articles on university, blue, satin, university blue satin:
... All graduates below the rank of Masters, members of the University Council and Companions of the University wear a black Bachelor Cambridge style robe ... pattern of green cloth with facings of blue, red and gold satin ... The sleeves are fully lined with University blue satin, with red and gold satin edgings ...
Famous quotes containing the words satin, university and/or blue:
“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”
—Liz Smith (b. 1923)
“Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aiming at a definite and concrete goal, generally suppresses everything inessential to its purpose; poetry, existing only to exhibit itself as an aesthetic object, aims only at completeness and perfection of form.”
—Richard Harter Fogle, U.S. critic, educator. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley, ch. 1, University of North Carolina Press (1949)
“...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)