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Convinced that closer cooperation between the Biology and Zoology departments would-open whole new fields of research. Professor Alfred S. Romer, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, urged such interaction in his annual report last week to Provest Buck...
Equipped with new buildings and excellent laboratory facilities, the Bio Department is one of the more modern in the University. Its professors on the whole are superior lecturers, and practically all are recognized authorities in their respective fields. With men like Wetmore, Weston, Sax, Hisaw, Romer, and Castle carrying the main teaching burdens, they present an accurate and animated picture of Biology today...
...Overseers also named Alfred S. Romer as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. The Agassiz Professorships were established in 1944 for the support of research in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Professor Alfred S. Romer of Harvard was not so sure that Man would evolve so triumphantly. "If we were dinosaurs, back in the days of their greatness," he said, "we would probably have had similar thoughts (if we'd had brains to think them). The dinosaurs didn't go further, and became extinct...
What creature, then, might inherit the earth? "Rats," said Professor Romer...