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I wish Mr Duncan (and Mr Obama when he is wearing his mortar-board) the very best of luck as they try to tackle the gigantic task ahead.

Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

In her honor, du Maurier drew a cartoon of Mr Punch tipping his mortar-board as Agnata enters a first-class railway compartment labelled Ladies Only with the text ‘Honour to Agnata Frances Ramsay’.

Agnata Frances Ramsay 2006

In her honor, du Maurier drew a cartoon of Mr Punch tipping his mortar-board as Agnata enters a first-class railway compartment labelled Ladies Only with the text ‘Honour to Agnata Frances Ramsay’.

Archive 2006-09-01 2006

At twenty-five minutes to six he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening “preparation duty.”

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

The hall with its insistent scholastic suggestions, its yellow marbled paper, its long rows of hat-pegs, its disreputable array of umbrellas, a broken mortar-board and a tattered and scattered Principia, seemed dim and dull in contrast with the luminous stir of the early March evening outside.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

Mr. Lewisham raised his mortar-board, and to his astonishment Mr. Bonover responded with a markedly formal salute — mock clerical hat sweeping circuitously — and the regard of a searching, disapproving eye, and so passed.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

“I say,” he said with a fearful sense of his temerity, and raising his mortar-board awkwardly as though he was passing a funeral.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004