The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-28
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY. T..

yTNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY q MEDICINE
L AND SURGERY was organized in 1928. Chartered
by the Legislature. February 26. 1883 NaT cnangea
by Legislative enactment to the Eclectic h-ed;cai COL
ege OF Philadelphia in 1861 In 1868 purcEas ed the
Pennsylvania Medical College. established in i642, ana
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had prevDu5y
boon merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College, ~
1854 it purchased the Penn Medical University. Tie
Trustees OF the separate schools united petioned and
obtained special Act of the legislature consolidating
these institutions and cha gng their to that of the
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery,
March Is, 1865 AL thl various Acts are publ he'd In
the statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost OF the udlng
and museum one hundred thousand dollars 1t
will he observed that the University as now organized 1s
the le representative of tho four Medical
il has absorbed Is liberal school OF medicine con-
fined to no dogma, nor attached 10 any medical cnque
but embraces in It's teaching everything OF value TO tue
profession
Sessions-It has two full sessions eachy .eommenc.
ing the 1s OF October and continuing until the 1st OF
January its first session. and from the ls OF January
to the ls OF April its second the two constituting one
full course of lectures. 1t has also summer session.
for the preparatory branches, such Latin, Greek,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy
Physiology. etc.
500 for each session For the summer or preparatory
course S26. Graudating fee $780, To aid young men OF
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold 10 rstcourse students tor
S15 and u secondcourse students and clergymen for
sSO each constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges OF the lectures and all the teaching
OF the school. The only additional fees early dis
secting and mariculang ticket, each OF which Is s5s
The Advantages of Scholarships. student holding
scholarship enter the College at any time during the
year. attend long as he chooses and roenter the nsn
tuition as frequently as de-ired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to enter the
University on scholarships; hence all private tuition fees
are saved.
Students by holding scholarships prosecute other
business part Of the time.
The candidate for graduation. can present himself at
any time, and receive bis degree as qualified.
In ion should hold scholarship and not be
able to attend lectures it can be transferred 10 anothe
thus preventing any loss. +
Parents, guardians friends of students washing to
purchase scholarship for them year or more before
her attendance at the University can secure them By
advancing onehalf the price and paying the balance
when the student enters. Physicians and benevolent
men bestow great benefit upon poor young mon cy
presenting them scholarship, and thus enabling them
| to obtain an honorable profession.
Tho Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
aud surgeons. The University has associated with 1t
large hospital clinic whete every form OF medical and
surgical disease s operated and treated in the pres
ence OF he class.
COLLEGE BU1LDIEd.-Thc College building, located in
Ninth street south Of Walnut is the finest in the city
Its front is collegiate gothic and ia adorned with en-
battlemcnts and embrasures presenting novel, bold
and beautiful appearance The facade Of brown stone
ornaroented by two towers. rising to the elevation OF
eighty eet and crowned with an embattled parapet.
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 two hundred and fifty are now
sod those who wish to secure ono shoud do 80 at once
Money be rentted by express, or 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
ksq.. and the Dean Of the Faculty, W. PAINE, NJ. D.
All orders for scholarships other busness OF the Un-
versity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE, NJ
D., Philadelphia. Pa,