The Bachelor of Ugliness was a title conferred onto Vanderbilt University's most popular male undergraduate. One of the highest honors that a student could achieve, it was given to the male undergraduate student believed to be most representative of ideal young manhood and the class's most popular member, devised by William H. Dodd, a professor, in 1885.
List of recipients
YearRecipient1885T. P. Branch1886Benjamin G. Waller1887A. E. Clement/R. E. Crockett (tie vote)1888Frank Taylor1889Jeff McCarn1890V. S. Roenborough1891Horace E. Bemis1892J. A. Robins1893R. W. Clawson1894W. W. Craig1895W. R. Hendrix1896H. N. Pharr1897Myles P. O'Connor1898Phil Connell1899S. V. Gardner1900W. A. White1901F. S. Palmer1902John Edgerton1903B. F. Carr1904Ben Clary1905E. B. Tucker1906Ed Hamilton1907A. M. Souby1908Bob Blake1909N. T. Dowling (Elected, but resigned)1910Bruce McGehee1911John W. Bull1912Ray Morrison1913Bruce Wade1914Enoch Brown1915Tom Brown1916Irby Curry1917Pope Shannon1918Ammie Sikes1919Chas R. Richardson1920Manning Brown1921Grailey Berryhill1922Scotty Neill1923Jess Neely1924Unknown1925Gil Reese1928Bill Spears1929Charlie Hawkins1930Paul McGaughey1937David Mayson1938Carl Hinkle1968Lee Barfield1970Perry Wallace The Commodore (Vanderbilt Yearbook), 1923, page 265
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