Indiana University

    Crimson a sun bisque charged with an open book crimson
 clasped or

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With Tags: The unofficial coat of arms of my alma mater, Indiana University, with a few artistic liberties taken for clarity. The university was founded in the year 1821, and in those heady days of the early Republic, heraldry was eyed with suspicion by most Americans; they regarded it as a relic of European feudalism with which they were glad to dispense. The university's founders consequently adopted a round, suitably-classical "seal," which has been in official use ever since; however, it was not long before student and alumni organizations began taking the central element of the "sigil"--an open book surrounded by rays of light--and began "heraldifying" it. They adopted the open, clasped book ubiquitous to the heraldic achievements of Anglo-American universities, imposed it over a sun to indicate the rays of light and glory, and stuck the whole thing on a shield, using the university's colors of crimson and cream (bisque)--or, if one is a stickler for avoiding non-standard tinctures, gules and argent.

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