Mills College
California
1852
In the early 1890s Mills College students chose the marguerite daisy as their school flower, and for their school colors they chose gold and white, the colors of that flower.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): white/gold (1917); white/blue (1918); gold/white (1923-1935)
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) probably assigned Mills College a hood lining between 1895 and 1902. Academic hood lists published by the Bureau in 1927, 1948, and 1972 described the lining as gold with a white chevron. An identical description appeared in lists compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970).