Baldwin-Wallace University
Ohio
1845
Students at Baldwin University chose seal brown and old gold as their school colors in 1890. “Seal brown” was a dark shade of brown.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): seal brown/yellow (1896-1897); brown/yellow (1900); old gold/seal brown (1902-1904); old gold/brown (1906-1908); old gold/seal brown (1909-1913); brown/gold (1915-1916); gold/brown (1917-1918); brown/gold (1923-1935)
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned a hood lining to Baldwin-Wallace University between 1913 and 1927. The university must have sent a color sample of old gold to the Bureau that was brighter and more vivid than was typical of “old gold”, because academic hood lists published by the IBAC in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described the hood lining of the university as dark brown with a gold (not old gold) chevron. Similarly, lists compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) described the university’s hood lining as brown with a gold chevron. The traditional dark brown and old gold colors of Baldwin-Wallace have been used here.