The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

TTNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY or MEDICINE
AND SURGERY was organized in 1873. Chartered
by the Legislature. February 26. 1853 Nar changed
by legislative enactment to the Eclectic Ned ical Col
lere of Philadelphia in 1850 In 1863 purcEas cd the
PENNSYLVANIA Medical College, established in 1SN, ana
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College. h
1864 it purchased the Penn Medical University. pne
Trustees of the separate schools united peoned and
obtained special Act of the legislature consolidating
these institutions and cha ng their chat OF the
Philadephia University of Medicine and Surgery,
March IT, 1866 AL these various Acts publ he'd in
the statutes Of Pennsylvania. The cost Of the uildng
and museum over one hundred thousand dollars. It
will be observed that the University as now organized s
the legal representative of the four Medical Colleges that
il has absorbed. is liberal school of medicine
fined to no dogma, attached 10 any medical clique
but embraces In its teaching everything of value to the
profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year, commenc-
ing on the 1st of October and continuing until the st Of
January as its first session. and from the 1st Of January
to the st of a2r its second two constituting one
full course CT lectures. It has also session,
commencing the 1st April and continuing until August,
for the preparatory branches such Latin, Greek,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology Chemistry, Anatomy
Tcks@Tickets to the full course of lectures $780, or
SEQ for each session. For the or preparatory
course s25 Graduating fee $50. To aid young of
moderate me2ns the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold to frstcourse students for
s75 and 10 secondcourse students and clepymen for
ssS each Constituting the holder life member with the
perpetual privileges Of the lectures and all the teachings
of the school. The only additional fees early dis
sectiQQ and matrCuIAuuB ehcn OF winch Is
The Advantages of fScholdrskips-The student holding
scholarship enter the College at any time during the
wear attend long he chooses and reentsr the ns
tuition as frequently as de.ired.
It REQUIRES previ0ue reading study to enter the
University scholarships, hence. all private tuition fees
are saved
Students by holding scholarships prosecute other
business part Of the time.
The candidate for graduation present himself at
any tme and receive his degree as soon as qualified.
= In case stuoent should hold scholarship and not be
able to attend lectures 1t be transferred another
thus preventing any loss.
Parents guardians friends of students wishing to
unrcbase scholarship for them year more before
advancing one-haf the price and paying the balance
when the student enters Physicians and benevolent
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men by
presenting them scholarship, and thus enabling them
TO obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with 1t
large hospital clinic, whee every form Of medical and
surgical disease is operated and treated in the pres
ence Of the class.
Ninth street. south Of Walnut, the finest in the city,
It's front collegiate gothic and Is adorned with en-
bsttlements and embraeures, presenting povel bold,
and beautiful appearance The facade Is Of brown stone
ornarnented by two towers rising TO the elevation OF
eighty feet and crowned with embattled psrapet.
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 as two hundred ana my are now
sold those who wish 10 should do 10 at once
Money can be remitted by express 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 g. FISHER,
Esq and the Dean Of the Faculty, W. PAINE, NJ. D.
AM orders for schoIarshps or other business Of the Uni
versity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE NJ
D. Philadelphia, Pa.