"The reason his course is [one of] the largest at Harvard is because of him, not because of the subject matter," Marlowe says.
DeVore makes no secret of his teaching strategy.
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"I tend to teach by humor and shock," DeVore says. "I try to keep bored undergraduates awake."
"Before the end of the term, I will have insulted every religious group and gender in the world," he adds.
DeVore has been known to jump around and gyrate his hips in an impression of buffaloes mating.
"Apparently he does a very good imitation of lions having sex," Marlowe says.
Propriety on parents' weekend be damned--DeVore has been known to introduce the visitors to a spicier side of Harvard.
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