An undated pamphlet published by Cotrell & Leonard (a c.1909-1910 reprint of a 27 July 1902 newspaper article in The Argus entitled “Albany Bureau of Academic Costume”) and an article in the January 1911 edition of the Cyclopedia of Education (with information from 1910) both contained an identical short list of hood assignments from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC). The c.1909-10 hood list was a close duplication of the hood list in the 1902 Argus newspaper, except that the c.1909-10 list deleted hood information for the Catholic University of America and added hood lining information for two institutions that were not cited in the original 1902 newspaper article: George Washington University and Manhattan College.

In the c.1909-1910 list, the Bureau said that Manhattan used a white hood lining with a green chevron. A 1927 IBAC list clarified the shade of the chevron as emerald green, a description that was not revised thereafter. Unfortunately this revision created a duplication with the hood lining the IBAC had already assigned to Clark University in 1896 or 1897.

Here this duplication has been avoided by using Manhattan’s original (c.1909-10) white hood lining with a medium green chevron.