Cleary College does not appear in early Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) lists from 1927 or 1948, so the IBAC may not have assigned the college a hood lining until the late 1940s or 1950s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described Cleary’s hood lining as navy blue with a scarlet reversed chevron, which was also how it was described in an IBAC list from 1972.