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A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
The velvet trim from the hood signifies by color the type of Doctoral degree: blue trim for PhDs and yellow for ScDs. [83] Michigan State University: Green and white Black Black velvet octagonal tam All undergraduate gowns and mortarboards are green [citation needed] New York University: Mayfair Violet Mayfair Violet and Black
Princeton University's store, featuring the school's orange and black colors. The tradition of school colors appears to have started in England in the 1830s. The University of Cambridge chose Cambridge blue for the Boat Race against the University of Oxford in 1836, [2] Westminster School have used pink as their color since a boat race against Eton School in 1837, [3] and Durham University ...
St Hugh's College St John's College St Peter's College; Scarf colours: Two narrow double-stripes a fifth of a scarf-width in from either edge, the left of each double-stripe of white and the right of yellow, with the background areas to the left of each double-stripe of blue, and to the right of black, such that a black and a blue area meet in the centre of the scarf.
Big Blue – Lion mascot of the Old Dominion Monarchs; Big Blue – Bull mascot of the Utah State Aggies; Big Red – mascot of the Sacred Heart Pioneers; Big Red - blob-like mascot of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers; Big Red and LU - Cardinals, co-mascots of the Lamar Cardinals and Lady Cardinals
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Many university colours are known by the name of the colour used, which is usually the colour worn by the university's sports teams, e.g. Blue at Oxford and Cambridge, Palatinate at Durham, Pink at Trinity College Dublin or Red at Bristol. These are similar to the varsity letters awarded by American universities.