The tassel that graduates transfer from one side of the cap to the other as a sign of their elevation is an outgrowth of the medieval biretta worn by Roman Catholic clergy.
It never became firmly established here as a folk custom, however, and today's elaborate New Year's parade in Philadelphia is the only organized outgrowth of English mumming in the United States.
An outgrowth of the struggle for ratification of the Constitution, the Federalist Party supported a strong central government that would be affiliated with the banker-merchant forces behind the Constitution.
Nonetheless, in the 1950s and 1960s, a few Soviet critics directly took up the question of colonialism, which they saw, in the tradition of Marx and Lenin, as an outgrowth of capitalism.