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 beginning in 1895 the “triple chevron” was also used occasionally. The typical width of a normal chevron was between three and four inches, but the triple chevron pattern used three chevrons of about 1½ inches in width placed approximately two inches apart so that the color of the hood lining showed between them.

Jarvis Christian College did 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. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the college’s hood lining as gold with three blue chevrons, which was also how it was described in an IBAC list from 1972. The Bureau probably used three chevrons to distinguish Jarvis Christian College’s hood lining from the hood lining already assigned to Rockefeller University (gold with two royal blue chevrons) although it should be pointed out that the IBAC described Jarvis’s colors as “gold and blue”, not “old gold and royal blue”.