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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 well 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 

 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 

 protect and safeguard the health of their race. He had the 



