The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-06
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
i Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1S4S
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1853
Name changed by legislative enactment to the
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 been
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 a special act of the Leg
islature consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March 10,
1865. Ali these various acts are published in 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 no
dogma, nor attached to any medical clique; but
embraces In its teachings everything OF value to
the profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the 1st of October, and cOntinu
ing until the 1st of January its first session,
and from the 1st of January to the 1st 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, Psychology, etc
IIckets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
s120, or $50 for each session; For the summer ae
or preparotary course S25 Graduating fee $50.
To aid youpg Of moderate means, the Univer-
sity has issued .tt0e handTed scholarships, which
are sold to tirst-course students, for $75 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 yearly dissecting and matricula-
ting ticket, each of which is S5.
Tie Aduumtages Of ,SchOlaTShip.-The student
holding scholarship can enter the College at
any time during the year, attend as long as ne
chooses and e.enter the institution as frequent
ly as desired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to en-
ter the University on scholarships, hence, all pr-
vate tuition fees 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
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 one-half the price,
having the balance when the student enters
Physicians and benevolent men can bcstow 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
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 BU1LpING-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 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, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.