The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1867-12-14
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
Medicine and Surgery.

vHNdE Philadelphia University OF Medicine and
IL Surgery was organized Ill 1878 Chartered
by the Legislature, February 26, 1858 Name
changed bya legislative enactment to the Ecec-
tie Medical College of Philadelphia i'll 1860. In
1868 it purchased the Pennsy ylvania Medical Col
lege, established in 1912, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously been
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1861 it purchased the Penn Medical Univer-
s1ty. The Trustees of the separate schools uni
ted, petitioned, and obtained special act Of the
Legislature consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University OF Medicine and Surgery, March Is,
1860. Ali these various acts are published i'll the
statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost Of the build
ing and museum was Overcome 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 liberal school of medicine, confined to no
dogma, nor attached to any medical clique; but
embraces IN its teachings everything of value
| the profession,
comnnHs-It has two full sessions each year,
ing uutll tht't tn" Ist OF October, and continu-
| and from the iSaf January as its first session,
as its second; the two Upplry to the st of April
OF lectures 1t has also d futng one full course
mencing the lst of April and Concession COM
August for the preparatory brancns:'sg until
| Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, lv~h as
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
Iickets.-Tickets to the full course ot lectures
S120, or $50 for each session. For thr summer OF
preparatory course S25. Graduating fee $50. To
aid yoHRg men of moderate me0ns, the University
has issued fire hundred scholarships, which arc
sold to tirStcourse students for SO, and to sec
ond-course students and clergynlen for $50,
each constituting the holder q life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures,
and ali the teachings of the school. The only
! additional fees are yearly dissccting ami ma
| circulating ticket, each of which is s..
| Tile AardntdgeS Of ISchOtGFshtps.-TlIe student
holding a scholarship can enter the College at
| any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses, and re-eut0r the institution as fire.
| quently as desired.
! 1t requires no previous reading or study to en-
| ter the University scholarships hence, all
private tuition fees saved.
| Students, by holding scholarships, can prose
| cute other business a part of the time.
| The candidate for graduation can present him
| self at any time, and receive his degree soon
as qualified.
In case q student should hold scholarship
aud not be able to attend lectures, it can be trans
fcrrcd to another, thus preventing any loss.
| Parents, guardians, or friends of students
| wishing to purchase scholarships for them ayea1
or more before their attendance at the Cniver-
sity secure them by advancing One-haF the
price, and paying the balance when the student
enters. Physicians and benevolent men can be
stow great benefit upon poor young men, by pre-
seuting 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
ciated with it a large hospital clinic, where every
| form of medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class.
College B.ilding.-The College building, locat
ed i'll Ninth street, south of Walnut, is the finest
in the city Its front is collegiate gothic, and is
adorned with embellishments and embrasures
presenting novel; bold and beautiful appear
anee. The FACADE is of brown stone, ornamented
by two towers, rising to the elevation of eighty
feet, and crowned with an embattled parapet
The building contains between fifty and sixty
| ROOMS, all supplied with water. gas, and every
other convenience that nodernimprovementc car
| contribute to facilitate medical instruction. On
ly five hundred scholarships viii be issued, and
as two hundred and fifty are now sold, those wht
wish to secure one should do SO at once Money
can be remitted by express, draft or cheel
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
JOS. s. Fisher, Esq, and the Dean of the Faculty
w. Paine Nj. d.. All orders for scholarships o.
other business of the University should be ,ad
| dressed to PROFESSOR w. PAINE, NJ. D.,
| june S-52I " PfTIadephia Pa