Xxviii MUSGRAVE, 
Continuing in this same address, our dearly beloved friend 
and teacher has left us the following advice for the future policy 
and guidance of the school: 
We must therefore, in the future as in the past, strive to obtain and 
retain men in the school of the best capability for advancing their own 
technical specialties. Mere teaching will not do, it lacks that peculiar force 
which renders the pupils in after life capable of independent development. 
Mere study on the part of the expectant graduate will also not do. He 
must continue his scientific growth by observation, thought, study and 
reasoning from the facts as he finds them to those lying in the higher 
realms of advance beyond. Faculty and students form the institution as a 
whole, and it is for them to see that, through the many years of its 
existence, it continues to play its part in the great advance of human 
thought as a vigorous entity in the community of schools of learning. 
In this last quotation we are given a duty that is made sacred 
by the martyrdom of him who gave it. The duty is a hard one; 
no one realized more fully than did Doctor Freer that our great- 
est difficulty would be to inculcate the spirit of independent 
thought in our students. 
shown 
that there are local causes, intrinsic and acquired, that make 
this the greatest problem of our institutions of advanced learn- 
ing, and the ultimate success of our work depends upon our 
being able to surmount these difficulties which only may be 
done by constant effort and the revolutionizing of the customs 
and practices of centuries. 
This is the one phase of our educational development that 
had not been satisfactory to Doctor Freer, and I bespeak the 
cooperation of the members of the Faculty to make the appeal 
contained in his last public utterance to us our watchword for 
p success; and may our efforts not cease until the Paul Caspar 
Freer Professorship of Chemistry in the University of the Phil- 
ippines is freely recognized as one of the positions of honor in 
the scientific world. 
