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.
Who is pointing or orating, who
wears that academic gown, and what dignity or indignity did they bear?
Not exact matches
Priests and ministers (the title depending on how Protestant they were)
wore academic hoods and
gowns to remind us that they were learned, thoughtful men.
To celebrate his Third Class he
wore to the National Assembly, a Doctoral candidate's
gown, and thus insulted the entire
academic establishment.