Talk:Academic regalia of Stanford University

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Missing words, repetition, unclear statements etc.....

• which was a development of academic and clerical dress common throughout the medieval universities of Europe.[1] Today, also in common with most American universities, academic regalia is commonly only seen only at graduation ceremonies.

common, common, commonly

• For most of its academic dress, Stanford follows the Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume which was devised in 1895 and sets out a detailed uniform scheme of academic regalia.

three academics in one sentence

• distinct robe for its PhD graduates which, until 2005, was unique among American institutions of higher education in being based specifically

Distinct, unique specifically. Of these three only the "unique" is necessary.

• and was a very low-key affair. not encyclopaedic.
• It was not until 1899 that a student at Stanford convinced her classmates to wear caps and gowns at the annual graduation ceremony

This reads as if the student had been trying unsuccessfully to convince her friends for seven years. It would be better to word it:

Academic robes were first worn at Stanford in 1899 when a student convinced her classmates to wear caps and gowns for the annual graduation ceremony.

• They remained the only ones to use academic dress until 1903 when eight law graduates adopted it

Can this be rephrased as This was the only use of......"?

• Finally, in 1907, the ..... This is the penultimate statement, not the ultimate. Drop the "finally".
• Having been founded by as the Intercollegiate Code of Academic ...."

You've changed your mind about the wording and left something behind.

• laid out by the code in 1895.[3] It used a traditional hood with a lining of cardinal red.[5]

If the "it" refers to the "code" then "used" is the wrong verb.

• The adoption of Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume by many universities in the Eastern United States was ostensibly completed to provide graduating students with an outward equality.[7]

The word "completed" suggests something that happened at a particular date, but no date is given. The sentence stands well without the "completed". "was ostensibly to provide" is adequate.

• It seems that because of this official ambivalence towards academic regalia, it was used only at commencement from an early date.[3] This continues to be the case today at Stanford.

I don't know what this means. Does it mean that although regalia was used at commencement at an early date, it no longer is, or does it mean something else?

• This Code was originally written in 1895 and has been revised several since.

Missing a word.

I'll leave the rest for you to read through..... Amandajm (talk) 12:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

It seems odd that someone would find all of these problems, take the time to copy and paste them here, but not actually address them.--dave-- 16:50, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I thought you might prefer to do it yourself. Then you can tweak the phrasing however you prefer. Amandajm (talk) 00:54, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

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Post-2018 changes to doctoral regalia

The PhD hoods were changed in 2018 to the ICC standard shape, and no longer using the University arms but the arms of each school on the front, but I haven't been able to find any documentation from Stanford itself explaining or even announcing those changes.Lpburrows (talk) 19:05, 27 June 2022 (UTC)