Hood lining assignments by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (1969)
David Lockmiller served on the American Council on Education committee that revised the 1935 Academic Costume Code in 1959. A decade later he wrote a book about American higher education entitled Scholars on Parade: Colleges, Universities, Costumes and Degrees, which was published by Macmillan in 1969.
Lockmiller devoted an entire chapter of his book to academic costume, including discussion of Faculty colors and hood lining patterns. For instance, here his discussion of the heraldic patterns used in American academic hoods:
Lockmiller received at least a partial list of official academic hood lining patterns from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume via the Cotrell & Leonard firm, and included this information in an appendix to Scholars on Parade.
While Lockmiller’s book does not contain a complete list of hood lining patterns approved by the Bureau, it is a useful late 1960s compilation of information about the hood linings used by the major colleges and universities in the US that conferred doctoral degrees. Most faculty members in 1969 would have been wearing academic hoods from these institutions.
Comparing Lockmiller’s information to earlier Intercollegiate Bureau lists in 1927 and 1948, we can see that by 1969 the Intercollegiate Bureau had updated its information about the hood lining patterns of colleges and universities that were not (or were no longer) clients of Cotrell & Leonard using information from Kevin Sheard’s seminal work from 1962, Academic Heraldry in America.
