Gallery I
Whilst most folk are familiar with the common or garden gnome in his bright working clothes and red pointy hat, few are cognizant of the much rarer academic gnome in his rusty or greenish tattered academic gown, colourful hood and (normally) black square academic cap.
Well, on this and the following pages you can see many examples
of the varieties of academic costume sported by the academic gnomes.
Most of the costumes shown belong to Theo Gnome (aged 345 years), son of the learned Doctor Hieronymous T. Gnome, the senior member of the Clan of Academic Gnomes.
Theo.
Theophilous G. Gnome, M.A. (Wheatley City)
Theo’s MA hood. You will see how this hood has evolved from the traditional gnomic head covering
Theo modeling the gown and hood of and Old Fellow of the defunct Academic Society of London .
(one of the many Learned Society Fellowships he has collected).
Theo modeling his great Uncle Drongo’s Harvard Doctor’s robe.
Drongo was much taller than Theo, as the sleeves of the robe reveal.
The Reverend Doctor Athansasius Gnome, D.D. Unfortunately, Dr Euthanasia’s is a curmudgeonly, sanctimonious old fart – like his
illustrious Alexandrian namesake.
Theo in his FASC hood and gown.
Not normally musical, the academics gnomes are the exception.
Theo hums and strums
along with the best of them.
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Dame Griselda,MSc(Dom). There are few female academics gnomes, and most of these are exceedingly shy and retiring. This is Theo’s mother in her Mistress of Domestic Science gown, cap and hood.
Beryl the Gnome (q.v.) is the latest addition to the esteemed holders of the MSc(Dom).
Theo’s father, the eminent Dr. Hieronymous T. Gnome in his D.Litt(Oxenhope) robes.
Hieronymous is the author of “An Exhaustive History of the Ancient and Virtuous Order of the Bearded Nuns of St. Barbera(sic)”, (1934) The Trouser Press, Wormley.
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