The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
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MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

rIyHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY o. MEDICINE
AND SURGERY was organized in 1913. Chartered
by the Legislature February 26. 1853 Sarl changed
hv legislative enactment to the Eclectic Med ic Col
eoe of PHILADELPHIA in 1860 In 1853 Il purcEas cd the
Pennsylyania Medical College. established in 1914 and
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had previously
been MERGED into the Pennsylvania Medical College IN
1854 IL purchased the Penn Medical University Tie
Trustees of the separate schools united peoned and
obtained special Act OF the Legsatre consolidating
Philadelphia University OF Medicine and Surgery,
March L. 1855. All various Acts are pubh he'd in
the statutes OF Pennsylvania The cost Of the uildng
and museum was over hundred thousand dolars. It
will be observed that the University organized s
the legal representative Of the four Medical Colleges that
It has absorbed 1t Is liberal school OF medicine, con.
fined to no dogma, attached 10 any medical clique
but embraces In Its teaching everything Of value to the
profession.
esions-It has two full sessions each year. cornmenc-
ing the 1s of October and continuing until the 1st Of
January its first session. and from the 1sof January
to the LIST OF April its second; the two constituting
full course of lectures It has also summer session,
commencing the 1st April aad continuing until August
for the preparatory branchess such Latin Greek,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy
TcEes@ckets to the full course of lectures s12o or
$50 for each session. For the summer preparatory
course s25. Graduating fec $780, TO aid young men Of
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
schoarsps which arc sold TO frscourse students for
s75 and to secondcourse students and clergymen for
$50 each constituting the holder life member with the
perpetual privileges ofthe lectures and all the teachings
Of the school The only additional fees are early dis
secting and mahiculatng hcke each of which is S6.
The Adpdradges of Scholarship student holding
scholarship can enter the College OF any time during the
year. attend long as he chooses and reenter the ins
tuition as frequently as desired
It requires no previous reading study to enter the
University scholarships hence, all private tuition fees
saved.
students by holding scholarships can prosecute other
business Part ofthe time.
The candidate for graduation can present. himself at
any time and receive his degree soon qualified.
In case su0ent should hold scholarship and not be
able to sttend ecturet can be transferred 70 anotner
thua preventing any loss. -
Parens guardians friends OF students wishing to
unrchase scholarship for them year or more cetore
their attendance at the University can secure them by
advancing onehal tho price and paying the balance
men can bestow great benefit poor young men by
presenting them scholarship and thus enabling them
foobtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons Tho University has associated with 1t
large hospital cntc whete every form Of medical and
surgical disease n operated on and treated In the pms
epee Of the class. ,.,i
Ninth street. south Of Walnut is the finest In the CITY
It's front Is collegiate gothic. and Is adorned with egg
battements and embrasures, presenting novel poio
aud beautiful appearance. The facade is OF broWn stone
ornaruented by tFo towers rising to the elcWtion o.
eighty feet and crowned with an embattled parapet
me building contains between fifty and sixty rooms oil
wpied with water, gus, and everE otnsr conyenenct
that modern improvement can contribute to facifaft
medical instruction. Only i've hundred scholarship.
will -be iasIbd and as two hundred ana MY ee noN
sold those who wash to secureone should do 80 at once
Money can be retted by ezpress, or drnt or cncci
sent onny National Bank IN the United Ststes WneI
the scholarship will be retained by mail signed by tn
President Of the Board OF Trustees JOSEPH
Esa and theI}ea OF the Faculty, W. PAINE, M. u
All orders for Scholarships other business ortns enl
yersity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE
D., Phfisdslphia. Pa.