Virginia Theological Seminary
Virginia
1818
The official name of the institution is the “Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia”
Detailed historical information about the black and white school colors of Virginia Theological Seminary is not available at this time.
The chapter on American academic hoods in the 1924 edition of Frank Haycraft’s The Degrees and Hoods of the World’s Colleges and Universities included a summary of the 1895 Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume and a long list of schools, each with a description of its hood lining. The chapter was written in a way that implied that this hood lining list was from the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC), but in fact most of the hood lining information appears to have been derived from the list of college colors in the 1923 edition of the World Almanac, with the first color in the World Almanac taken to indicate the hood lining, and the second color the chevron. But a few of the colleges and universities in Haycraft are not found in the World Almanac, which suggests that the hood lining information about these schools was gleaned from the IBAC around 1923.
Virginia Theological Seminary is an example of an institution that appeared in 1924 Haycraft but not in the 1923 World Almanac. Haycraft described the seminary’s hood lining as white with a black chevron, a description that was repeated without change in all subsequent IBAC sources.
Please note that Virginia Theological Seminary is not to be confused with Virginia Theological Seminary and College, a historically black institution that is today known as Virginia University of Lynchburg.