gownsman

At age 14 he was registered as a gownsman on 3 June 1610 at Leiden University, his native city.

Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe and hinders action with its voluminous folds.

Never too keen on academic studies, he left the University in 1830, though some of his earliest writing appeared in university publications The Snob and The Gownsman.

VIII Up sprang Inspector Fluffy, Up Sergeant Jaggard rose, And playfully with staff he tapped A gownsman on the nose.

'Liberalism alone is the great Lady Surgeon of a nation's maladies, and while she is temporarily abed with a broken limb, the nation is the sufferer'(Ramsey in the Gownsman, 6 December 1924).

He had been reading the Report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it; but it was easy to see that he felt towards the author much as soldiers do towards the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman.