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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from the sphere of the average American and European scholar, are
most numerous. In the botany, zoology, anthropology, linguistics, and
history of the Philippines and neighboring countries, there is an almost
inexhaustible mine. The University offers post-graduate work in these
and other fields leading to the degree of master of science. It has
several gifted scholars in its faculty who are peculiarly qualified to
engage in research themselves and to direct the research of students.
By a reduction in their hours of teaching and by supplying them with
adequate resources opportunity should be given to such teachers to make
their contributions to knowledge and to add to the prestige of the University. The Commission believes that rather than to establish a graduate school of research for which there has been considerable agitation
in the University circles, this is the sounder policy for the University to
adopt. No department of a university is more costly than a graduate
school requiring as it does special laboratory and library facilities and
a personnel of unusual attainments-another matter of expense. The
University of the Philippines is a young institution whose foundations
need strengthening. Its limited resources should be concentrated upon
improving the work in which it is already engaged. The Commission
is also of the belief that until the resources of the University permit
otherwise, the University is wise in confining its graduate work to
that which leads to the master's degree.
The suggestion has been urged to establish an extension division of
the University to bring its various departments within reach of all the
people of the Islands. This would include lectures, correspondence
work, demonstration work, and the multifarious activities in which an
energetic extension department engages. Some of these forms of extension work, because so few of the people live in cities and because
of the difficulty of travel, would be more difficult in the Philippines
than in the United States. For some others the people of the Islands
are hardly ready. For the reasons mentioned above, the Commission
is of the opinion that the University ought not for the present to expand
its extension work into a regularly organized extension department with
all the expense that that entails. The Commission believes it should
continue the extension work in which it is already engaged but should
restrict expansion in the extension field to cooperating as far as possible
with such governmental agencies as the Bureaus of Agriculture, Health,
and Education.
INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
THE PRESIDENT.-There are few positions in life which require
a greater variety of abilities than that of the university president. Especially versatile must be the president of a public university. He has not