The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-22
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY

MEDICINE AND SURGE cry.
TNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
l. Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1915
Chartered by the Legislature, February 10, 1888
Name changed by legislative enactment to tht
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1860
In 1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
College, established in 1912, and the Philadelphia
! Medical College, which had previously beer
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical UNIVERSE
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 Phlladelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March 10
1865. All these various acts are published III the
| statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost ofthe 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 liberal school Of medicine, confined to nc
dogma, nor attached to any medical Clique bu,
embraces in its teachings everything OF value to
the profession.
SesSions-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the LIST of October, and contlnu'
ing until the LIST of January as its first session,
and from the LIST of January to the LIST of April as
its second the two constituting one full course
of lectures. 1t has also summer session, com.
mencing the first of April and continuing until
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
THckets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
S120, or $50 for each session. For the summer
or preparatory course S25. Graduating fee $50.
To aid yOa5tg Of moderate means, the Univer-
sity has issued tiUe hundred scholarships, which
are sold to first-course students, tor So and to
second-course students, and clergymen Tor 500,
each constituting the holder ola 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 matrlcula-
ting ticket, each of which is IS.
The advantages Of Schola,Ship.-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 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 them year or
more before attendance at tho University, can
secure them by advancing onc-halt 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-
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 BUILDING.-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 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 one should do so at
once. Money can be RENTED by express, or a
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, NJ D. All Or
ders for scholarships or other business of the
should be addressed to Professor w.
Paine, NJ. D., Philadelphia Pa.