The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-17
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
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MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

TIHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
l. AND SURGERY was organized in 1s4s. Chartered
by the Legislature February 26. 1853. Naae changed
by legislative enactment TO the Eclectic Medical Col
lege Philadelphia In 1860 In 1868 1t purctss ed the
Pennsylvania Medical college. established in 1872 and
the Philadelphia Medical College which had previously
1864 1t purchased the Penn Medical Univ rsty. The
Trustees Of the separate schools united, peioned and
obtained special Act Of the Lees consolidating
these institutions and cha gng their names to that OF the
Philadelphia University OF Medicine and surgery,
March 16 1866. All these various Acts publ he'd In
the statutes of Pennsylvania Tho cost OF the iuding
and museum was over one hundred thousand dollars II
will be observed that the University as now organized
the legal representative Of the four Medical Colleges that
II has absorbed It s liberal school Of medicine, con-
fined to dogma, attached to any medical cques
but embraces In its teaching everything OF value to the
profession. ~
Sessions-It has two full sessions s.ch year, commeno
ing the st OF October and continuing until the let OF
January its first session, and fom the ls OF January
TO the 1st April as its second the TWO constituting one
full course of lectures 1t has also summer session,
commencing tho 1st April aad continuing until August
for the preparatory branchcs, such as Latin, Greek,
Mathematics, Botany. Zoology, Chemistry, Anatomy
Physiology, etc. -,..r- g
iTeets~Tckets to the full Of lectures $780, or
$50 for each session For the summer or preparatory
course s25. Graduating fee $780, To aid young men oi
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold TO rstcourse students ior
S75 and to secondcourse students and clergymen for
$780, each constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges Of the lectures and all the teachings
OF the school, The only additional tees early dis
sectng and matriculatng ticket. each OF which is So
The Advantages of Scholdrsips-The student holding
scholarship can enter the College any time during the
year. attend long he chooses and rcner the nsn
tuition as frequently as de-ired. -
requires previous reading or study 10 enter tne
University scholarships hence all private tuition ees
are saved. 70
students by holding scholarships, prosecute other
business Fart ofthe time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself 81
any time and receive his degree qualified.
In stuoent should hold scholarship and not Dc
10
thus preventing any loss.
Parents guardians friends Of students wishing 10
purchase scholarship for them year or more peiore
their attendance at the University can secure them py
advancing onehalf the price and paying the paianco
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men py
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, where every form Of medical and
surgical disease Is operated and treated in the pres
ence OF the class.
COLLEGE Bu1IDNa.-Ths College building, located IN
Ninth street. south Of Walnut Ia the finest IN the CITY,
Its font Is collegiate gotnic and is adorned with en-
battlements and embrasures presenting novel, poid,
and beautiful appearance. The facade OF brown stone
ornarnented by towers, rising to the eleyauon OF
eighty feet and crowned with an emba.tled parapet
The building contains between fifty aud sixty rooms al
supplied with water, gas and every other convenience
that modern improvement contribute TO factltate
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
will be issued anil two hundred and nifty are now
sod those VINO wish to should do so &c once
Money can be RENTED by express draft or check
sent on any National Bank in the United States when
the scholarship will be returned by mall signed oy inc
President OF the Board of Trustees JOSEPH g. FISHE6
ESQ.,. and the Dean OF the Faculty, w. PAINE, NJ u.
All orders scholarships other business OF the UNI
versity should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE ID.
D., Philadelphia, Pa.