The Bachelor of Ugliness was a title conferred onto

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

'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

Many more men have been voted into this honor, such as the first African-American basketball player at Vanderbilt,

Perry Wallace Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2017) was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in ...

, who earned the title in 1970.

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