The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1867-11-30
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
Medicine and Surgery.

THE Philadelphia University of Medicine and
| IL Surgery was organized in 1913. Chartered
changed by a legislative enactment to the Eclec'
| tic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1850 In
1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical Col
llege, 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 Univer-
sity. 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 10,
1860. All these various acts are published III the
statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost of 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 it's teachings everything of value
to the profession.
Sessto,ls.-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the lst of October, and continu-
ing until the lst of January it's first session,
and from the 1st of January to the 1st OF April
its second the two constituting one full course
of lectures. 1t has also a summer session, COM
mencing the 1st of April and continuing until
August for the preparatory branches, such as
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology etc.
ITckets.-Iickets to the full course of lectures
$780, or $50 for each session. For the summer or
preparatory course $25. Graduating fee $50. To
aid young of moderate Gtea'es the University
has issued fac hundred scholarships, which are
sold to trst-course students for S75, and to sec
ond-course students and clergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder Il life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures,
and all the teachings Of the school. The only
additional fees are a yearly dissecting and ma
circulating ticket, each of which is S5.
The Adrantages of SchoEarships.-The student
holding scholarship can enter the College at
any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses, and re-ent9r the institution as fire.
quently as desired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to en-
ter the University on scholarships hence, all
private 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 student should hold q scholarship
and not be able to attend lectures it can be trans
ferred to another, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends of students
wishing to purchase scholarships for them year
or more before their attendance at the Univer-
sty, can Secure them by advancing one-half 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-
senting them 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 large hospital clinic, where every
form of medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class.
| College Bssitding-The College building, locat-
ed in 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 modern Improvement can
contribute to facilitate medical instruction. On.
| ly five hundred scholarships will be issued, and
as two hundred and fifty are now sold, those who
wish to secure one should do SO at once. Money
can be remitted 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
LOS. S. Fisher, Esq, and the Dean of the Faculty
Nv. Paine, M. d. All orders for scholarships OF
other business of the University should be ad
dressed to PROFESSOR w. PAINE, M. d.,
| June S-521 Philadelphia, Pa