Saint Norbert College
Wisconsin
1898
The colors of St. Norbert College were originally green, gold, and white, but when the institution separated into a high school and a college in the 1930s, the high school used green and white and the college used green and gold. The shade of green was dark, like a forest green. Today St. Norbert describes it as “Dartmouth green”, and says that its gold is “old gold”. The original shade of the college’s gold, however, was a bright yellow-gold.
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume may have assigned St. Norbert College a hood lining pattern in the 1920s, but the first official citation from the Bureau wasn’t published until 1972, where the pattern was described as white above green with a gold chevron separating the two. In Academic Heraldry in America (1962) and Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), however, Kevin Sheard said that the white and green were divided “per pale” – that is, vertically – and that the chevron was yellow. Those descriptions appear to have been erroneous.