This is the earliest complete list of hood lining assignments we have from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume. The Bureau sent this information, possibly dating from as early as c.1925, to British author Frank W. Haycraft who included it in the 3^rd edition of The Degrees and Hoods of the World’s Universities and Colleges, which was published by Cheshunt Press in 1927.

This list includes colleges and universities that were officially assigned a hood lining pattern by the Intercollegiate Bureau, as well as a large number of colleges and universities that had not been assigned an official hood lining pattern but have been cited with a “generic” single-chevron pattern based on school color data the Bureau had compiled from various sources, primarily early editions of the World Almanac. These “generic”, unofficial hood linings account for most of the apparent hood lining duplications in this list.

Because of space limitations, either the Intercollegiate Bureau or Frank Haycraft evidently shortened some of the descriptions of the heraldic patterns cited here. So, for instance, the precise heraldic division of hood linings with two colors divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar is not stated except to say that one color is “above” the other. Likewise, the direction of double or triple chevrons is usually omitted, so a hood lined with two inverted chevrons is typically cited with an abbreviated description of “two [colored chevrons]”. Color descriptions were also shortened: many schools with “royal purple” colors are listed as having “purple”.