The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-27
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY

EDJCINE AND URGERY.
JNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
l Medicine and Surgery was organized in lS4S.
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1858.
Name charged by IL legislative enactment to the
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia i'll 1860.
In 1868 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
CoIIece established in 1872 and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which mad previously oeen
merred into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1864 it purchased the Penn Medical Universe
ty The Trustees OF the separate schools united,
petitionel, and obtained special act OF the Leg
islature consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March 15,
1865 All these various acts are published in the
statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost ofthe build
inr and museum was over one hundred thousand
dollars Ii 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
the profession.
S.Ssioas-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the 1st of October, and continu-
ing until the lst of January as its first session,
and from the 1St of January to the 1st of April us
its second; the two constituting one full course
of lectures. Ii has also Il 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
TGckets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
$780, or $50 for each session. For the summer
or prcparotary course S25. Graduating fee $50.
To aid young men of moderate mednS the Uniyer-
sity has issued fire hundred scholarships, which
are sold to iirstcourse students, for SO, and to
second-course students, and clergymcn 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 yearly dissecting and matricula-
ting ticket, each of which is So.
The AdUantdges Of SctolaTship.-The student
holding q 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 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
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 onc-halt the price,
paying the balance when the student enters.-
Physicians and benevolent men can bestow great
benefit upon poor yong 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-
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 a 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 remitted by express, or
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, M. D. All Or
ders for scholarships or other business of the
University, should be addressed to Professor W.
Paine, NJ. D., Philadelphia Pa.