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The Asian History course was taught by Professor Zach Baughn who had filled three blackboards with names and events before the class began.
He underlined each blackboard item as he gave the lecture three times each week.
40 minutes into the class, professor Baughn would have underlined all the blackboard stuff, erased one of the boards and began new entries at a hustling clip.
We would stagger out of one of these “Zach's eyepoper” lectures with terminal hand cramps...

Note taking is a lost art. i really believe powerpoint has destroyed the current generations ability to listen and discern what is important and what isn’t. everything cannot be simplified to 4 or 5 bulleted points.

The Asian History course was taught by Professor Zach Baughn who had filled three blackboards with names and events before the class began.

Heh. My freshman calculus class was similar. It was taught by the man who wrote the text book and his style was to talk fast and fill chalkboard after chalkboard with equations. The large classrooms at CalTech at the time (early 1980s, I don't know what they're like now) had 3x3 movable boards. You pulled one down, pushed another one up, etc. and could see nine at a time.

I recall not being able to scribble down everything he wrote by the time he got past the 9th chalkboard and went back to the first and started erasing.

To encourage class attendance, he always included one question on every test that was only explained one day in class (class notes were allowed when taking tests) and was never touched on either in his textbook nor the homework. Fun, fun.