The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-26
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

yJyEE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
l. AND SURGERY was organized in ls4S. chartered
by the Legislature February 26. 1853 Na1ae changed
by legislative enactment the Eclectic hed,cal Col
ege of Philadelphia in 1860 In 1868 purctas ed the
Pennsylvania Medical College. established In io42 and
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical college In
1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Univ rsiiy. Tine
Trustees Of the separate schools united, pedoned and
obtained special Act of the legislature consolidating
these institutions and their names to that OF the
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery
March 15 1865. All these various Acts are publ he'd IL
the statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost OF the udne
and museum was hundred thousand dollars. II
will be observed that the University as now organized
the legal representative of the tour Medical Colleges thai
il has absorbed 1t is liberal school OF medicine. con
fined to no dogma, attached 10 any medical ciqueS
but embraces in its teaching everything OF value to the
profession.
Sessions-It has two full each year. commenc
ing on the 1st of October and continuing until the lst o
January its first session. and from the ls OF January
to the lst April ts second the two constituting one
full of lectures 1t has also summer session
commencing the 1s April a1d continuing until August
for the preparatory branches, such as Lahn, Greek
Mathematics Botany, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy
Physiology. eto.
iTcets--Tickets to the full of lectures $780, OF
$50 for each session. For the summer or preparatory
course $25. Graduating fee $50. TO aid young men
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold to rscourse students to
S75 and to secondcourse students and clergymen fol
$50, each constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges of the lectures and all the eachn q
OF the school, The only additional fees are early dis
secting and matricuating ticket each OF which is So
The Advantages of fSchotdrShp-The student holding
scholarship enter the College at any time during ht
year. attend az long as he chooses and reenter the ns
tuition as frequently as de-ired.
II REQUIRES no previous reading or study 10 enter INT
University scholarships hence all private tuition ee
saved.
Students by holding scholarships prosecute Other
business Part of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present nlinseil
any time and receive his degree as soon as qualified
In case stuuent should hold schoarship and not bt
able TO attend lectures 1t can be transferred To anotner
thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians friends of students wishing te
purchase scholarship tor them year or more before
their attendance at the University secure them by
advancing onehalf the price and paying the Daance
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men by
presenting them scholarship, and thus enabling them
to OBTAIN an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with
large hospital clinic where every form OF medical and
surgical disease is operated on and treated in the pres
ence of The class.
COLLEGE BU1LDNG.--The College building, located in
Ninth street. south Of Walnut Is the finest IN the city
Its front is collegiate gothic, and Is adorned with en-
battlements and embrasures, presenting novel, Doiu,
and beautiful appearance The acade Is OF brown stone
ornaIuented by two towers, rising to the elevation o
eighty feet, and crowned with an embatted parapeI
The building contains between fifty and sixty rooms, all
supplied with water gas, and every other convenience
that modern improvement can contribute to facilitate
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
will be issued and as two hundred ana nity are now
Sold those who wish TO should do 30 at once
Money can be reunited by express, draft or check
sent on any National Bank in the United States, when
the scholarship will be returned by mail signed by the
President of the Board of Trustees, JOSEPH s. FISHER
ESQ.,, and the Dean OF the Faculty, W. PAINE NJ. ID.
All orders for scholarships or other business of the Uni
yersty, should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE NJ
D., Philadelphia, Pa.