On second thoughts, however, he threw his Academicals back on to the sofa and went to his book-case.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
"Heidelberg has a university of seven hundred students, who wear no particular Academicals, but are generally seen with a little red or blue cap topping a luxuriant head of hair, a long coat, and moustaches which usually perform the function of a chimney to pipe or cigar.
"My Life as an Author"
Martin Farquhar Tupper
At night he is apt to evade the statutes as to Academicals; but if he wears his gown, he wraps it about his neck as if it were a muffler, and tilts his mortar-board at all angles.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin