Note 260 — Chapter III · THE UNIVERSITY AS A DEGREE-GIVING BODY
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A man’s university and the faculty in which he has graduated are shown by the hood: the Cambridge master’s hood is black silk lined with white silk; the bachelor’s black stuff hood is trimmed with white rabbit fur. The doctors in the three faculties wear scarlet silk hoods lined with pink and violet shot silk (D.D.), cherry silk (LL.D.) and magenta silk (M.D.).
B.D.’s wear a hood of black silk inside and out; LL.M.’s wear an M.A.’s hood; LL.B.’s, a B.A.’s hood; M.B.’s a black hood lined with scarlet.
The Mus.Doc. wears a brocaded hood lined with cherry satin; Mus.Bac. black silk lined with cherry silk and trimmed with rabbit fur; Litt.D. scarlet silk inside and out; D.Sc. scarlet, lined with shot pink and light blue silk.