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MUSGRAVE. 
Doctor Freer 
chairman 
operation of Mr. Worcester, succeeded in securing satisfactory 
legislation. "The Philippine Medical School" opened its courses 
of instruction in 1907, and was merged with the University 
of the Philippines as the College of Medicine and Surgery in 
1909. Doctor Freer was dean and, also, professor of chemistry 
from the organization of the school until his death, which 
occurred just five years after the opening of the school and shortly 
after graduation of the first class of physicians who had taken 
their entire course of instruction in this institution. 
He always stood for high standards in educational work, and 
it was due largely to his efforts that the College of Medicine 
and Surgery was able to establish and maintain rigid entrance 
requirements, a five years* course of instruction, and to secure a 
faculty of research workers who are paid for teaching. This 
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was no easy task. The public demand for more physicians, 
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the small number of thoroughly prepared students, the limited 
resources of the Government, and the political exigencies were 
such that the pressure brought to bear for lower requirements 
for admission with larger classes, shorter courses of instruc- 
tion, and less expensive teachers and methods was very strong- 
Doctor Freer very correctly considered that the stand taken by 
the Philippine Medical School would determine, for a long time 
to come, the. policy of higher educational methods, and in winning 
this fight for high standards he not only gained world-wide 
recognition for our school from the first, but a precedent was 
established that made a similar policy practicable for other col- 
leges and prepared the way for a University before one was 
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created. 
During the first years of our work, while searching the world 
for suitable teachers for the Medical School, Doctor Freer crip- 
pled the efficiency of his own Bureau by furnishing a large 
proportion of the faculty from the members of the staff of the 
Bureau of Science. Not only this, but he gave freely of his 
own time and even diverted funds, as far as practicable within 
the law, in order to insure the success of the school. 
