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Baker University

Kansas

1858

official hood lining pattern
cadmium orange

Students at Baker University adopted cadmium orange as their school color in 1893. Cadmium orange is a deep shade of orange.

A doctoral hood from Baker University, manufactured in the early 1970s by the Thomas A. Peterson Company of Kansas City, Missouri. The lining is a strange shade of peach-orange, an inaccurate representation of cadmium orange. The white velet hood edging indicates either an honorary Doctor of Humane Literature degree, an honorary Doctor of Arts degree, or (if the recipient followed the "subject color" standards of the 1960 Academic Costume Code) a Doctor of Philosophy degree for someone who studied Literature or the Humanities.
A c.1909-1911 tobacco card by Murad Cigarettes.

Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): white (1895); cadmium orange (1896-1902); burnt orange (1904-1910); cadmium orange (1911); orange (1914-1918); cadmium orange (1923-1931); orange/black (1934-1935)

Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described Baker University as having a hood lined with a single color of burnt orange, a fairly accurate description of the university’s dark orange color.

A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) similarly described the hood lining as “cadmium orange”, the university’s official shade of orange.

It is not known when the IBAC assigned Baker this hood lining, but it may have been as early as 1895.

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