Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) in 1927 and 1948 described both Milligan College and Findlay College as having a hood lined black with an orange chevron. Milligan was probably the first to have been officially assigned this lining pattern (between 1908 and 1911), so the college used master’s and honorary doctor’s degree hoods in this lining pattern for the next 70 years.

Unfortunately, in the 1980s Milligan’s academic costume supplier began sending the college academic hoods with a lining pattern identical to Princeton University (orange with a black chevron), an error that was not noticed until 2015 when Emmanuel Christian Seminary was incorporated into Milligan College. Since by this point the University of Findlay was also using hoods lined black with an orange chevron, in August 2017 the president of Milligan, Bill Greer, decided to combine the traditional Milligan pattern (black with an orange chevron) with the former hood heraldry of Emmanuel (two chevrons, each royal blue on a silver hood lining, seen at the bottom of the page here) to create a new hood lining pattern: black with two orange chevrons. This was a hood lining pattern the IBAC had originally assigned to the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, which went defunct in 1944.