Abstract
Harvard University, the oldest and perhaps most celebrated and prestigious university in the United States, has been a fixture of the Boston area for almost four hundred years. Founded a scant fourteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Harvard has grown from a small colonial school to one of the world’s foremost private research universities. Much has been written about Harvard’s history, but this article explores one small aspect of this vast subject: the history and practice of academic dress at this (by New World standards) ancient institution. Harvard dress as it now stands owes a good deal to academic dress in English universities and therefore to the academic dress of medieval Oxford and Cambridge. [Excerpt].
Recommended Citation
Hoffmann, Nichoals A.
(2009)
"Crow’s Feet and Crimson: Academic Dress at Harvard,"
Transactions of the Burgon Society:
Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.4148/2475-7799.1071
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