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There was a UT professor during the 70s whose lectures were brilliant. His courses and grading were tough, but students took his courses just to attend his lectures. Finally, I was able to enroll in one of his classes, and he died unexpectedly in the middle of the term. We were flabbergasted. He was middle aged.

His lectures provided content critical to the course. However, taking notes would cause you to miss something. Each lecture was brilliantly written, brilliantly composed, and his delivery was enveloping. I would sit enrapt through each one and scribble down notes from memory, afterwards.
 
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#10,052
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Tin Man said:
There was a UT professor during the 70s whose lectures were brilliant. His courses and grading were tough, but students took his courses just to attend his lectures. Finally, I was able to enroll in one of his classes, and he died unexpectedly in the middle of the term. We were flabbergasted. He was middle aged.

His lectures provided content critical to the course. However, taking notes would cause you to miss something. Each lecture was brilliantly written, brilliantly composed, and his delivery was enveloping. I would sit enrapt through each one and scribble down notes from memory, afterwards.
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Who was it? Which department?
 
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#10,057
Tin Man said:
You know what they say about age and memory… I can picture his face (and the grad assistant he was schtupping)… Anthropology Department (not Richard Bass).
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The guys name was William (Bill) Bass. Not Richard. I took a lecture from Bill in the 79 - 80 time frame. Was fascinating.
 
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#10,063
Tin Man said:
I remember William Bass and took several courses with him in the 70s. He’s… 94 now?
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Yes I attended one of his seminars around 81 and he was funny and had some really Great stories. I thought oh this is probably going to be a
morbid seminar but it was completely the opposite. He also talked about the body farm that they have at UT.
 
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