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The price covers the student's ticket, academic gown hire, a souvenir brochure and access to a 90-minute garden party.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2022

The academic gown, once worn every day for warmth in unheated northern European universities, needs restyling each 50 years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter, painted in the space of a few hours, captured his shrewd potato face, with the hair disordered and lips just parted in speech, above the subtle pink and vermilion of an academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

On every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul had planned to march with the college women, so she was wearing her black academic gown.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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