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mortarboard

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mortarboard
closefitting cap with flat square piece and tassel; part of academic costume. [Am. and Br. Culture: Misc.]
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Data from the Census Bureau and College Board show it will cost you 202 percent more to sport a mortarboard today than it did in 1981, and during the last year alone average tuition costs have risen 9.
College of the Canyons President Dianne Van Hook places a mortarboard on a depiction of the new $10 million University Center planned for the campus.
Snapshot #2: My 18-year-old sister Luanne, standing with clumps of friends, all of them grinning and wearing the dark green gowns of their upcoming graduation and clutching mortarboards that threaten to topple off their heads.
 
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