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Academic dress of the University of Manchester

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The mace-bearer wears a gown with square ended sleeves of plain purple silk or stuff, edged for one inch in gold ribbon, and a black Tudor bonnet with cord and tassels of gold. Major benefactors of the university and other people associated with the university (but who are neither students nor staff)
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At a University of Manchester graduation ceremony the graduands wear the academic dress appropriate to the qualification they are about to be awarded. Mortarboards or Tudor bonnets are worn at the finish of the ceremony and in procession, but held in the hand otherwise. Officers of the university and
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The robe of the Chancellor is of purple silk damask with flap collar and closed, square ended sleeves , edged with silver lace throughout and trimmed with silver frogs on the sleeves, and with the university arms, crest and motto embroidered on each of the revers at chest height. The cap is a black
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In the university regulations it states: "Those Members of the University who are entitled to wear academic dress shall do so at the ceremonials of the University." The wearing of academic dress is confined to occasions of high ceremony, especially graduation congregations, therefore undergraduate
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etc. - A robe of black silk or stuff of the shape special to the University. The gown is of the traditional masters' shape with the boot of the sleeve cut into the shape of an 'M', a distinction unique to the university, designated under the
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with the exception of the Certificates and Diplomas hood, which is of a modified Aberdeen shape. All have purple neckbands with a centrally-placed band of gold ribbon. Excepting those of doctors, all hoods are of black corded material.
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gowns for university-wide purposes do not exist, neither do 'undress robes' for doctors. However, in a few traditional halls of residence undergraduates wear academic gowns at formal dinners, held biweekly at
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velvet Tudor bonnet with a cord and tassels of silver. The robes worn by other university officers, such as the Vice-Chancellor, Deans and Registrars, and those deputising for them, are similar.
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Manchester Academic Dress: the origins and development of academical dress at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1880 to the present day
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participating academics wear their headgear throughout, except when tipping their hats to the presiding officer and speakers.
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can wear a generally similar gown, in being of plain purple material with edgings of gold ribbon, at ceremonies.
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describes the gowns, hoods and headwear which are prescribed by the university for its graduates and officers.
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in 2004. Rather than adapt the academic dress of its predecessor institutions, the university appointed
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Detail of the hood worn by holders of postgraduate master's degrees other than the MPhil
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Officers of the university wear special academic dress on ceremonial occasions.
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to create a new range of academic robes upon its foundation.
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Shaw's Academical Dress of Great Britain and Ireland
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academic dress
University of Manchester
University of Manchester
UMIST
Victoria University of Manchester
Ede & Ravenscroft
St. Anselm Hall
Hulme Hall

Groves classification system
DSc
DLitt
PhD
DEng

Groves classification system
MBChB
mortarboard
Tudor bonnet

ISBN
978-0-95612723-5

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University of Manchester
Architecture
Science and Engineering

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