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Academic dress

BMJ 1998; 317 doi: 10.1136/bmj.317.7164.1007a (Published 10 October 1998)
Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:1007.2

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In your issue of June 12 (Supplement, p. 165) it was announced that no hoods were to be worn during the Cambridge Meeting because the Chancellor would not be present. perhaps as an expert on academical dress, and the author of a work of 220,000 words on this little-known subject, I may be permitted to say:

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