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 mest 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 preéminent in his own line of study, 
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