The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-13
No. ~.
Miscell
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

MEDICINE AND SURG ERY.
THE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
Il Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1S4S.
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1858.
Name changed by legislative enactment to the
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia In 1850.
In 1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
College, established in 1912, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously been
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Uniyersi-
ty. The Trustees of the separate schools united,
petitioned, and obtained special act of the Leg
islature, consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March Is,
1865. All these various acts are published in the
statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost oft the build
ing and museum was over one hundred thousand
dollars. 1t will be observed that the University,
as now organized, is the legal representative of
the four medical colleges that it has absorbed
1t is a liberal school of medicine, confined to no
dogma, nor attached to any medical clique; but
embraces in its teachings everything OF value to
the profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the 1st of October, and continu-
ing until the LIST of January as it's first session,
and from the 1st of January to the LIST of April as
its second the two constituting one full course
of lectures. 1t has also q summer session, COM
mencing the first of April and continuing until
August, for the preparatory branches, such as
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy Physiology, etc
1Tckets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
S120, or $50 for each session. For the summer
or preparotary course S25 Graduating fee $50.
To aid yoaaag Of moderate means, the Univer-
sity has issued ttue hundred scholarships, which
are sold to irst-course students, for $40, and to
each constituting the holder of a life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures, and
all the teachings of the school. The only addi
tional fees are yearly dissecting and matricula-
ting ticket, each of which is SIS.
The advantages Of ,Scliolarship.-The student
holding scholarship can enter the College at
any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses and re enter the institution as frequent
ly as desired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to en-
ter the University on scholarships, hence, all pri-
vate tuition fees are saved. ..'
Students, by holding scholarships, can prose-
cute other business part of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present him
self at any time, and receive his degree as soon
as qualified.
In case a student should hold scholarship
and not be able to attend lectures, it can be
transferred to another, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends of students wish
ing to purchase scholarships for thema year or
more before attendance at the University, can
secure them by advancing one-half the price,
paying the balance when the student enters.-
Physicians and benevolent men can bestow great
benefit upon poor young men, by presenting
them a scholarship, and thus enabling them to
obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent ply
sicians and surgeons. The University has asso-
clalcQ Will IL large Hospltal cllnlc, WneEc every
form of medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class
COLLEGE BU1LDINe.-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 embellishments and embra-
sures, presenting a novel, bold, and beautiful ap
pearance. The facade is of brown stone, orna-
mented by two towers, rising to the elevation of
eighty feet, and crowned with an embattled par
apet. The building contains between fifty and
sixty rooms, all supplied with water, gas, and
every other convenience that modern improve
ment can contribute to facilitate medical instruc-
ton. Only five hundred scholarships will be is
sued, and as two hundred and fifty are now sold,
those who wish to secure should do SO at
once. Money can be remitted by express, or q
draft or check sent on any National bank in the
United States, when the scholarship will be re-
turned by mail, signed by the President of the
Board OF Trustees, Jos. S. Fisher Esq, and the
Dean of the Faculty, w. Paine, M. D. All or
ders for scholarships or other business of the
University, should be addressed to Professor w.
Paine M D., PHILADELPHIA, Pa,