The academic gown? Student protests in Germany drove it out (until recently)
The academic gown? Student protests in Germany drove it out (until recently)
Nijmegen - In 1967, two students from Hamburg brought about a radical change in Germany´s academic dress code. Just as a group of professors, all dressed in traditional black gowns, exited the auditorium of the University of Hamburg, the students unfurled a banner reading: Unter den Talaren...