"He's sort of like the grandfather. He trained everyone," says Matthew H. McIntyre, a teaching fellow in Science B-29. "Even if people disagree with him, they always make some sort of reference to him."
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His first course at Harvard, co-taught with three of the foremost anthropologists of the time, attracted an 800-person line on the day of registration.
At the time, a student's chances of getting into a class depended on his or her place in line. DeVore said spaces for the first 200 slots in line were being sold for up to $150.
"This was the incident that made them work out the more civilized rules [of registration]," DeVore says.
This fall, enrollment in Science B-29 was again limited, although the lottery system has improved somewhat since the 1960s.
Those who are not lured by the appeal of a class called "Sex," are drawn in by DeVore's enthusiastic, often peculiar, teaching style.
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