A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

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and at the invitation of the Secretary of Public Instruction, Dr. Paul
Monroe, Director of the International Institute of Teachers' College,
Columbia University, New York City, visited Manila, conferred with
the Secretary of Public Instruction, with the Educational Committees
of the Legislature, and with the Director of the Bureau of Education.
Following these conferences the Legislature made an additional appropriation 2 sufficient to make the survey effective.
On appointment by the Secretary of Public Instruction, Doctor
Monroe accepted the Chairmanship of the Board of Educational Survey
and the Directorship of the Survey and assumed the responsibility of
selecting the members of the technical staff, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of Public Instruction. Subsequently, the two other members of the Board of Educational Survey appointed were Dr. T. H.
Pardo de Tavera, of Manila, and President Henry Suzzalo, of the
University of Washington.
Doctor Tavera, who was by universal consent the most polished and
productive scholar of the present generation of Filipinos and a fearless,
outspoken leader, added much to the prestige of the Board and greatly
assisted in its judgments. To the great grief of all connected with the
Survey, the death of Doctor Tavera occurred in the midst of our work,
on March 28, 1925. Each member of the group had found in him
a personal friend and admired him as a most lovable gentleman. The
inability of Doctor Suzzalo to reach the Islands in time to participate
in the survey created a second vacancy.
'SIXTH PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE a
Third Session J H. No. 1688
[No. 3196]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTYONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO
CREATE A BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL SURVEY TO MAKE A
STUDY AND SURVEY OF EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND OF ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, FACILITIES,
AND AGENCIES THEREOF, AND TO APPROPRIATE NOT TO EXCEED FORTY THOUSAND PESOS TO DEFRAY ALL EXPENSES OF
SAID SURVEY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature
assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION I. Section two of Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and sixty-two is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not
otherwise appropriated the sum of not to exceed one hundred thousand pesos, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Board
with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction for the payment of all expenses
of every nature and kind which may be incurred in making said study and survey
herein authorized: Provided, That the funds hereby appropriated shall be exempt from
the effects of Joint Resolution Numbered One of the Philippine Legislature, dated March
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 2, 1924.