| 41. | "More memorable than a sunny day, " says a hopeful senior from beneath her dripping mortarboard.
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| 42. | "Mortarboards are to be worn flat _ level with the ground, " the dean had pronounced.
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| 43. | The mortarboard hat worn by graduates is adapted from a square cap called a biretta worn by Medieval professors and clerics
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| 44. | It is also only in recent years that female undergraduates have been permitted to remove their mortarboards during university ceremonies.
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| 45. | All Chancellors wear a black cloth mortarboard with gold braid, a metallic dome button and a full metallic tassel.
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| 46. | The mortarboards worn for bachelor's and master's degrees are also presently made from black synthetic fiber.
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| 47. | Others clutched their mortarboards to keep them from flying, as the wind coming through the microphones sounded like muffled fireworks.
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| 48. | But Saturday, Nikki, 19, was to wear her black gown and mortarboard and receive her high school diploma.
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| 49. | Seems that during the roll call readers ponder graduation mores _ from the tasseled mortarboard to the regalia of processing officials.
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| 50. | Academic regalia typically consists of a headgear ( mortarboard, Tudor bonnet or John Knox cap ), robe and hood.
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