DOCTOR FREER AS AN ORGANIZER AND AN ADMINISTRATOR. 



By Murray Bartlett, 

 President of the University of the Philippines. 



It is a rare thing when the creative and executive faculties 

 are united in one mind. Rarer even is the combination of 

 scientific genius and business ability. 



To see deeply into the laws underlying the mystery of nature, 

 to follow the trace of unknown promise to a successful con- 

 clusion, then to apply the practical methods of efficient life 

 to the results of scientific research is seldom achieved by one 

 mind and will. It is this combination of human powers that 

 has made possible the fame of an Edison, a Bell, a Westinghouse. 

 In most cases, men, such as these, use their ability to capitalize 

 for material value the fruits of their scientific investigation. 



Doctor Freer was one of these rare men. Undoubtedly he 

 could have devoted his extraordinary ability to amassing a 

 large fortune. Indeed, he had more than one opportunity so 

 to do. He might have erected upon the foundation of his genius 

 for seeing nature's hidden powers a great business organization 

 in his own land for his own enrichment. Instead, he built up 

 about his research and the research of others a great institution 

 for the practical benefit of humanity in a strange and far-away 

 land. The Bureau of Science is, perhaps, not so much a mon- 

 ument to Freer, the Scientist, as to Freer, the Organizer. 

 Truly could one of his friends say, "The Bureau of Science is 

 Freer." 



This is why there has been universal testimony to-day that 

 his place can not be filled. If such a statement can be true of 

 any man, it is certainly true of Doctor Freer, for where can 

 be found one, not only preeminent in his own line of study, 



