John Marshall Law School
Illinois
1899
Later the IBAC began to use a per reversed chevron division and a division per bar on rare occasions. Confusingly, in IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948, a number of hoods were described as “[color] above [color]” or “[color] over [color]” which referred either to a hood lining divided per chevron, per reversed chevron, or per bar. Today it is not usually known which of these three patterns the IBAC intended to describe.
The IBAC assigned John Marshall School of Law a “black above gold” hood lining, according to IBAC lists from 1927 and 1948. The heraldic division of the two colors was not defined. After the college changed its colors to crimson and gold, the Intercollegiate Bureau also changed John Marshall’s hood lining pattern. A 1972 list from the IBAC described the college’s hood lining as gold above crimson, and in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), Kevin Sheard said that the gold and crimson were divided per chevron. Unfortunately this is too easily confused with the hood lining of Iowa State University (gold above cardinal, divided per chevron), so here the heraldic division between the gold and crimson colors in John Marshall’s hood lining has been changed to a division per reversed chevron.
Detailed historical information about the school colors of John Marshall School of Law is not available, but the original black and gold colors of the college became crimson and gold at some point after World War Two.
The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division Leonard’s Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but beginning in 1895 the “parti per chevron” was also used quite frequently. Here the two school colors were placed in the hood lining one above the other, with the division between them following the shape of a chevron.
