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but familiar with the details of every other phase of scientific 
investigation; possessing the practical ability of a captain of 
industry and inspired by a spirit of service for country and 
for humanity? To say, however, that Doctor Freer's place can 
not be filled is not to declare that the work of the Bureau of 
Science can not go on. His task was so w^ell done, so completely 
organized that, with careful guidance, its many activities may 
continue unimpaired through the years. 
Doctor Freer had all the qualities of a great organizer; un- 
tiring industry which keeps no office hours, knowledge of affairs 
in the broad sense which kept him in touch with the practical 
needs of the world of trade and commerce, and ability in choos- 
ing his assistants. . Of these qualities, it is needless to speak. 
The organization he left behind speaks for him. In treating 
the subject of Doctor Freer as an organizer and an adminis- 
trator, I wish to mention the characteristics which were pecul- 
iarly his own. 
First, he was capable of rare unselfishness where an ideal 
was to be gained. All the way through, he sacrificed his own 
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time and desire for investigation in order to guide the investi- 
gation of others for the good of his Bureau. It was to him 
a real deprivation to give up his own- personal research in a 
field in which he had few peers and no superiors, yet there 
was no hesitation on his part in giving freely the results and 
the credit of his experience to men who were just beginning 
their scientific investigation. 
Nowhere does this unselfishness appear more clearly than 
in Doctor Freer's relations with the College of which he was the 
executive head. The Philippine Medical School was very largely 
the creation of Paul Freer, Its thoroughness of instruction 
and its high as well as practical standards were made possible 
by his thorough acquaintance with medical instruction and his 
extraordinary knowledge of university affairs. He was thor- 
oughly imbued with the idea of founding here, in these Islands, 
a great Medical College; to provide for the Filipino people a 
succession of competent physicians and surgeons who should 
safeguard 
He had the 
