And it seems that Princeton has also developed a set of residential colleges in the fairly recent past. I remembered these as not up to the Harvard-Yale standard, but looking at them now, I’m not sure that’s altogether true. Pretty good, for the most part. (Rice University in Houston also has houses or colleges with arms—will have to hunt those up.)
Butler College: Quite nice, if it’s the design of the background of http://web.princeton.edu/sites/butlercollege/forms.htm: Argent a slip of oak with three leaves proper and two acorns Or, a chief indented Azure.
Forbes College (nicely based on the Scottish Forbes arms, appropriately differenced):
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/forbes/newseal.jpg
Mathey College: No information found.
Rockefeller College
http://rocky.princeton.edu/templates/rocky/images/shield.gif
Wilson College: Couldn’t find anything just now, but I recall that Wilson bears "Azure a Bengal tiger rampant proper."
Joseph McMillan wrote:
And it seems that Princeton has also developed a set of residential colleges in the fairly recent past.
Here is a first pass at the Princeton arms series:
I am missing two colleges. One of them is being built. I am not sure if the Forbes arms have boar’s (following the namesake’s arms) or if they put muzzled tigers in their place.
IIRC the Scottish Forbes arms featured, not boars (and hopefully also not boors or bores) but bears heads.
Michael Swanson wrote:
Here is a first pass at the Princeton arms series:
I am missing two colleges. One of them is being built. I am not sure if the Forbes arms have boar’s (following the namesake’s arms) or if they put muzzled tigers in their place.
Bear’s heads with muzzles. The original Scottish arms have the bears’ heads erased close, as is normal in Scotland. The college has them erased at the neck.
Tigers heads would not be caboshed—for some reason that applies only to animals with antlers. I think these would have to be "Bengal tigers’ faces" or "heads affronty" (Bengal to distinguish them from the heraldic Tyger).
Joseph McMillan wrote:
Bear’s heads with muzzles. The original Scottish arms have the bears’ heads erased close, as is normal in Scotland. The college has them erased at the neck.
Tigers heads would not be caboshed—for some reason that applies only to animals with antlers. I think these would have to be "Bengal tigers’ faces" or "heads affronty" (Bengal to distinguish them from the heraldic Tyger).
Mike and Joe -
Thanks for the comments and corrections.
