The chevron was by far the most common heraldic division the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) employed to divide the two or three colors in an institution’s hood, but Leonard also used other heraldic devices to avoid assigning duplicate hood linings to colleges and universities that used the same school colors. By 1902 one of the other heraldic divisions the IBAC used was a “zone” of color, which is how the IBAC described a horizontal bar. Like the chevron, the bar was approximately three to four inches in width and extended from one side of the hood lining to the other.

Berkshire Christian College does not appear in early IBAC lists from 1927 or 1948, so the IBAC might not have assigned the college a hood lining until the late 1940s or 1950s. Lists compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970) described Berkshire’s hood lining as purple with a white bar, which was also how it was described in an IBAC list from 1972.