Sentences with phrase «academic gown»

At boorish Sewanee in 1969, all professors wear academic gowns in class and students are not allowed to walk the campus without coat and tie.

The red academic gowns of Scottish undergraduates resemble nothing more than old woolly dressing gowns retrieved from a dog's basket - but I admit there were many sub-zero Sunday mornings in the chapel when I was very glad of said cosy dressing gown.

Controversial lawmaker, representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, on Tuesday, appeared at the National Assembly Complex putting on academic gown of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

It's about time!Along these lines, get a load of this, from yesterday's show... er, I mean, fuearnl for Jack Layton: «Passing strange: The «Christian «minister, aka ring master, the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes announced at the beginning of theshow that he was wearing his academic gown (red, but faded to analmost becoming shade of orange), not his religious vestmentsout of deference to, and so as not to offend, other traditions.

Happily donning a yellow button on my academic gown that read, «Better Gay than Grumpy,» I stepped into the»80s and the ranks of professional theology as an active, indignant and optimistic teacher and priest with a ragged - edged commitment to justice for all oppressed people.

The sight of a senator of the Federal Republic coming to the plenary of the senate in academic gown is as a funny as it is silly.

Women teachers were few; political correctness was at a minimum; junior staff incurred the wrath of seniors if they happened to sit in the wrong chair; academic gowns were worn for Assembly and tours of duty; Latin was compulsory.

Who is pointing or orating, who wears that academic gown, and what dignity or indignity did they bear?