Note 363 — Chapter IV · COLLEGIATE AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY

Bachelors of arts whether they be scholars reading for a fellowship or young graduates preparing for the ‘Second Part’ of a tripos, are still in statu pupillari. Perhaps, then, the more important gown, the bachelor’s, retained this vestige of the older dress which has been lost in the modification undergone by the undergraduates’. That the strings indicate a state of dependence is confirmed by their being found on the dress of the pope’s lay chamberlains called camerieri di cappa e spada; the papal palfrey men and other domestics being also provided with them.