University of Virginia Library

The professor who acted as master of ceremonies,
after a vain attempt to carry out the
regular order of exercises, gave up the effort
and stated that the parchments would be delivered
by the faculty in the library, except
those of the masters of arts, eight in number,
who would receive their diplomas from the
president. Among the youths thus honored
was the promising son of the late Dr. George
Bugby, one of Virginia's brightest spirits,
who died all too soon for the success his
talents deserved. His lectures and essays,
collected in two volumes by his wife, contain
some of the choicest specimens of pathos
and humor in American literature. The
famous lecture on “Bacon and Greens” is a
perfect picture of the Old Virginia which
Virginians love, vanished from all but memory
now, and the chapter on “Rubinstein's
Music” cannot be excelled in its delicious
extravagance of style.