The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

TINHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
4 AND SURGERY organized in ls4S Chartered
by the Legislature. February &c. 1853. Name changed
by legislative enactment to the Eclectic Medical Col.
lege OF Philadelphia in 1860. In 1863 it purchased the
Pennsylynnla Medical College. established in 1912, and
the Phiade hia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College, In
1864 it purchased the Penn Medical University. The
Trustees the separate schools united. pettoped and
obtained special Act OF the legislature. consolidating
these institutions cha ng their TO that OF the
Philadelphia University III Medicine and surgery,
March l5 1863 All these various Acts are publ he'd in
the statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost OF the iuding
and museum was hundred thousand dollars. II
will bc observed that the University. organized is
the legal representative of the four Medical Colleges that
has absorbed 1t is liberal school Of medicine.
fined to DOGMA nor attached 10 any medical clique
hut embraces in its teaching everything of value to the
profession.
Ssss,onsI has two tull sessions each year,
ing the lst OF October and continuing uni The lst OF
January its first session. and from the Isl oi January
20 the ls OF April its second the two constituting one
null course OF ectures 1t has also summer session.
commencing the lst April and continuing unt'i August
for the preparatory branches such as Latn, Greek,
Mathematics. Botany Zoology. Chemistry. Anatomy,
Physiology. etc.
ficks,s-Tckets to the full OF lectures sl20.
SEQ for each session. For the summer preparatory
course S25. Graudating lee S30 10 aid young men OF
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold to rscourse students Tor
S75 and to secondcourse students and clergymen Tor
$50 each constituting the holder life member with the
perpetual privileges Of the lectures and all the teachings
othe school The only additional tees are early dis
secting and mariculang ticket, each OF which Is 3d.
The 1dudntdgeg OF Schoarships-rhe student holding
scholarship enter the College at any time during the
year. attend long he chooses and reenter the ins
tuition as frequently as de-ired.
requires previous reading study to enter the
University scholarships hence all private tuition fees
are saved
Students by holding scholarships. prosecute other
business rart OF the time
The candidate for graduation can present himself at
any me and receive his degree "a soon as qualified
In case sulen should hold scholarship and not be
able to attend lectures bo transferred 10 another
thus preventing any loss
Parents guardians or friends of students wishing to
purchase scholarship for them year or more before
their attendance ut the University can secure them by
advancing onehaf the price AMI paying the balance
when the student enters. Physicians and benevolent
men bestow great benefit upon poor young men by
presenting them scholarship ana thus eiaDlng Them
to obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with 1t
large hospital clinic whcIc every form OF medical and
surgical disease is operated on and treated IN the pres
ence OF The class.
COLLEGE BUILDNG-The College building, located in
Ninth street south Walnut is the finest in the city,
Its front Is collegiate gothic, and IL adorned with enl-
battlements and embrasures, presenting novel. bold.
and beautiful appearance The facade s Of brown stone.
ornamented by two towers. rising to the elevation OF
eighty feet and ,crowned with an embatted parapet
The building contains between fifty and sixty rooms all
supplied with water gas and every other convenience
that modern improvement contribute to facilitate
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
will be issued and III two hundred and fty are now
sold those who wish to one should do so at once
Money be RENTED by express. or daft or check
sent on any National Bank i'll the United states. whom
the scholarship will be returned by mall sighed by the
President of the Board OF Trustees JOSEPH s. FISHER
ESQ, aud the Dean OF the Faculty ". PAINE, NJ. d.
All orders scholarships other business OF the Uni
yersity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE NJ
D. Philadplnhia, Pa.