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. Five years of experience has 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 

 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. 



