The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-13
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND cry.

MEDICINE AND SURG cry.
THE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
Il Medicine and Surgery was organized IN 1919.
Chartered by the Legislature, February 70 1898.
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1860.
In 1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
College, established in 1S42, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously oeen
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Unlversl-
ty. The Trustees of the separate schools united,
petitioned, and obtained special act OF the Leg
isature, consolidating these l ms, ana
| changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March 10,
1865. All these various acts are published IN the
statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost OF the build,
ing and museum was over one hundred lnousand
| 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 it's 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
August, for the preparatory branches, such as
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
ITckets.-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 young men Of moderate means, the Univer
sity has issued flee hundred scholarships, which
are sold to tirst-course students, for SIS, and to
second-course students, and clergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder ofa life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures, and
all the teachings of the school, The only addi-
tiOnal fees are yearly dissectng and matricula-
ting ticket, each of which is So.
The advantages Of Scholar@ip-The student
hr1At nntnr fha of
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 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 the University, can
secure them by advancing onehalt the price,
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 ply
scians and surgeons. The University has asso-
cated 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