According to hood lining pattern lists from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927, 1948, 1969, and 1972, the Bureau assigned Berkeley Baptist Divinity School a hood lined royal purple with a gold (not old gold) chevron.

Unfortunately this was a duplication of the hood lining the IBAC had also assigned to Northwestern University. But correcting the chevron color to the seminary’s old gold does not resolve this problem because the Bureau assigned Knox College a hood lined dark purple with an old gold chevron.

Here the American Baptist Seminary of the West has been reassigned a unique hood lining pattern resembling banners that are used at the seminary’s commencement ceremonies: dark purple and old gold, divided vertically (“per pale”), a heraldic pattern the Intercollegiate Bureau used on rare occasions beginning in 1895.