The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

VNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
Il AND SURGERY was organized in 1s4S Chartered
by the Legislature February 49, 1858. Nare changed
by Legislative enactment 10 the Eclectic Medical Col.
ege, of Philadelphia in 1860. In 1868 1t purctas ed the
Pennsyvania Medical college. established IN i3A2, and
the Philaderhia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical college, In
1854 1t purchased the Penn Medical Univ rsi;y Tne
Trustees Of the separate schools united pedoned and
obtained special Act of the Leps. atlre consolidating
these institutions and their namos to that OF the
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery,
March is, 1865 All these various Acts publ he'd in
the statutes OF Pennsylvania The cost Of the fudng
and museum hundred thousand dollars. 1t
will be observed that the University now organized is
the legal representative Of the four Medical Colleges that
II has absorbed. 1t is liberal school of medicine. con-
fined to no dogma nor attached 10 any medical cques,
but embraces in its teaching everything of value to the
profession.
Sessions-It has two full sessions each year,
ing the 1s of October and continuing until the 1st of
January its first session. and from the 1st of January
to the lst OF April as its second the two constituting one
full course of lectures. It has also summer session,
commencing the 1st April and continuing until August
for the preparatory branches, such as Latin, Creek
Mathematics, Botany. Zoology. Chemistry. Anatomy
Physiology, etc.
$50 for each session. For the summer preparatory
course S25. Graduating fee $780, To aid young Of
moderate means the University has issued five hundred
scholarships which sold to hrscourse students for
$40. and to secondcourse students and cergymen for
$780, each constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges Of the lectures and all the eachng
secting and matrcuatin9 ticket each of which is S.
The Advantages of SchoLdrshipThe student holding
scholarship can enter the College at any time during the
year. attend long he chooses and re-ener the nsd
tuition as frequently as de.ired.
1t requires previous reading or study 20 enter the
University scholarships, hence all privat trion fees
saved.
Students by holding scholarships, can prose other
business Fart of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself at
any time and receive his degree soon qualified.
In case stuoent should hold scholarship and moi pe
able to attend lectures 1t can bs transferred another
thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians friends of students wishing to
purchase scholarship for them year more before
their attendance at the University them by
advancing one-half the price and paying the balance
when the student enters. Physicians and benevolent
men 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 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.-The College building, located In
Ninth street. south of Walnut is the finest in the CITY,
Its front is collegiate gothic and s adorned with en-
battlements and embrasures, presenting novel, bold
and beautiful appearance The facade s OF brown stone
ornaruented by towers rising to the elevation OF
eighty feet, and crowned with an embattled 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 two hundred and nifty are now
sod those wish to should do at once
Money be remltted by express or draft or check
sent any National Bank the United States, when
the scholarship will be returned by mall signed by the
President OF the Board Of Trustees JOSEPH s. FISHER
Esq., and the Dean OF the Faculty, w. PAINE, NJ. D.
versity should be addressed to Professor w. PAINE NJ
D. PHILADELPHIA Pa,