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The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard [1] (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar [2]) or Oxford cap [3] is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre.
Daikin Park (originally Enron Field and formerly Astros Field and Minute Maid Park) is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 and is the home ballpark of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. The ballpark has a seating capacity of 41,168, which includes 5,197 club seats and 63 luxury suites with a ...
It is the home field of the Houston Cougars baseball team. Several iterations of the ballpark have existed. The current stadium holds 5,000 people, and opened for baseball in 1995. With a 1,500 square foot Daktronics video board, Schroeder Park features the second-largest scoreboard in college baseball.
The shape is evocative of the square-cut liripipe incorporated into many academic hoods. The master's gown is designed to be worn open or closed. [2] A young Ruth Bader Ginsburg wearing (now since superseded) Columbia Law School academic regalia. Recent Columbia Law School graduates wear doctoral regalia.
Informally, the Houston Cougars have also been referred to as the Coogs, [2] UH, or simply Houston. Houston's nickname was suggested by early physical education instructor of the university and former head football coach, John R. Bender after one of his former teams, Washington State later adopted the mascot and nickname. [ 3 ]
The students usually get dressed up in a formal attire, wear a form of academic dress - usually a gown that is worn open in the front, sometimes accompanied by a square hat. They will have a procession of the academic staff and graduands, a valediction and then they are handed the certificates by the chief guest.
This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Houston, Texas. The information is a compilation of the information contained in the references listed. Herald Park a.k.a. League Park, Fair Ground Park, and Houston Base Ball Park Occupants: Houston Nationals – Texas League (1884) Houston Heralds – Independent (1887)
Baseball is unique among North American sports in that a team's non-playing staff (including managers, coaches, bullpen catchers, batboys, and ball boys) wear the same uniforms as their players with their own assigned uniform numbers; this is an vestigial remnant of when players on a team often held a dual role of being a player-manager.