The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) must have assigned Beaver College a hood lining that was silver gray with a scarlet chevron before c.1912, because by that date Seabury Divinity School had been assigned a hood lining that was silver gray above scarlet, divided per chevron. Typically the IBAC would assign a heraldic chevron to the first college or university to be registered with a certain pair of colors; schools that were later registered with those same colors would be assigned a hood lining with a different heraldic division, such as two chevrons, a division per chevron, a “zone” (bar), etc. So Beaver’s registration would have predated Seabury’s registration around 1912.

“Scarlet” described a bright red, and “silver gray” was a term the IBAC used to describe a light shade of gray, which appeared silvery when tailored using satin fabric in the hood lining. The first IBAC description of Beaver’s hood lining was in a 1927 list. An IBAC list from 1972 transposed the colors (scarlet with a silver gray chevron), but this is likely to have been an erroneous description.