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ommended the establishment of a Medical School. Doctor Freer 

 was chairman of the committee which, with the active co- 

 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 

 was no easy task. The public demand for more physicians, 

 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 

 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. 



