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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appointment of the Governor-General by and with the advice and
consent of the Philippine Senate. That the Governor-General and the
leaders of the Senate would find little difficulty in agreeing upon five
leading citizens of the Islands who would represent its intellectual
pursuits and vocational activities is, of course, to be presumed. The
Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines would then become a definitely nonpolitical body, with secure tenure and a real
measure of certainty of administrative autonomy. This reform would,
of course, be futile unless the Government ceases to regulate by statute
those affairs of the University which, by statute, it has placed under
the control of the Board of Regents.

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