Calvin College

Michigan

1876

Includes Calvin Theological Seminary

official hood lining pattern
A 1962 illustration in Academic Heraldry in America by Kevin Sheard of the maroon and gold hood lining pattern the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume assigned to Calvin College in the 1930s or 1940s. Sheard identified the hood as belonging to Loyola University Chicago because Loyola also began using this lining pattern in the late 1940s or 1950s.
maroon
gold

Students at Calvin College adopted maroon and gold school colors in 1916.

Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): maroon/gold (1934-1935)

The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) must have assigned a hood lining pattern to Calvin College between 1927 and 1948 as the college is not cited in an IBAC list until 1948, where it is described as having a hood lined maroon with a gold chevron. This description did not change in any IBAC list thereafter.

In the late 1940s or 1950s Loyola University Chicago began using an identical hood.