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WORCESTER. 
intimately associated with the peculiar abilities of its director 
that the Bureau would go to pieces now that his guiding hand 
has been palsied by death. 
It is not to be expected that anyone else could, at the outset, 
run so complicated a machine with the capable and peculiarly 
sympathetic touch of the man who built it, but ability to pro- 
duce a machine which can be operated successfully by others 
determines the value of the builder's work. As the years go 
by, it will be realized that the constructive work of Doctor Freer 
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for the Bureau of Science has successfully met this, the final test. 
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