The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-31
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

TEHE ~NIvERST OF MEDICINE
i N SURGERY was organized in 1s4s. Chartered
by the Legislature. February 20. 1883. Narie changed
by q legislative enactment TO the Eclectic Medical Col
lege, OF Philadelphia, in 1860. In 1863 1t purcEas ed 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 University. The
Trustees Of the separate schools united, pedhoned and
obtained a special Act Of the legislature, consolidating
these institutions and cha gin their names to that Of the
Philadelphia University OF Medicine and surgery,
March Is, 1865. All these various Acts are publ, he'd in
the statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost OF the luilding
and museum was over one hundred thousand dollars. 1t
will be observed that the University, asnow organized, Is
the legal representative of the four Medical Colleges that
Il has absorbed. 1t is u liberal school of medicine. con-
fined to no dogma, nor attached 10 any medical cltques,
but embraces in its teaching everything oil value 70 tho
profession.
.Session:.-It has two full sessions each year, commenc-
iug on the LIST of October, and continuing until the LIST OF
January, as its first session, and from the LIST OF January
to the LIST OF April, as Its second; the two constituting one
full course of lectures. It has also O summer session,
commencing the LIST April and continuing until August,
for the preparatory branches, such as Latn, Greek,
Mathematics. Botany, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy
Physiology, etc.
~ifckes.@Ttckets TO the full course of lectures sl20, or
$50 for each session. For the summer or preparatory
course S25. Graduating fee $50. To aid young men OF
moderate means, the University has issued hve hundred
scholarships, which IRE sold to hrst-coursc students TOR
S75. and 10 secord-course students and clergymen LOT
$50, each constituting the holder q life member, with the
perpetual privileges of the lectures, and all the teachings
OF the school. The only additional tees are o ) early dis.
secting and matriculatins ticket. each OF which Is So;
The Advantages of Schotarships.-The student holding O
scholarship can enter the College at any time during the
year, attend as long as he chooses, and re-enter the insu
tuition as frequently as de-red.
1t requires no previous reading or study TO enter the
University on scholarships, hence, all private tuition fees
are saved.
students, by holding scholarships, can prosecute other
business q Part fthe time. -.
The candidate for graduation can present himself OF
any time, and receive bis degree as soon as qualified.
In case q stuuent should hold scholarship and not be
able to attend lectures, 1t can DO transferred 10 anotner'
thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians or friends Of students wishing to
| purchase scholarship Tor them O year or more before
their attendance ut the University, can secure them by
advancing one.half the price and paying the balance
| men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men by
| presenting them q scholarship, and thus enabling them
to OBTAIN an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons. The University has associated Watn II O
largo hospital clinic, wheie every form OF medical and
| surgical disease is operated on and treated IN the pres
erce OF the class.
COLLEGE BuuDNa.-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 em'
batuements and cmbrasures, presenting o mover, Doio,
and beautiful appearance. The facade is OF brown stone,
ornanented by two towers, rising TO the elevation OF
eighty feet, and crowned with an embattled parapeL
The building contains between fifty and sixty rooms, oil
supplied with water, gas, and every other convenience
that modern improvement can contribute to facilitate
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
Will DO issued, and as two hundred and nifty are now
sold, those VINO wish TO secure one should do 80 at once.
| Money can be RENTED by express, or q draft or check
sent on any National Bank In the United States, when
the scholarship will be returned by mail, signed by the
President OF The Board OF Trustees, JOSEPH ). FISHER,
ESQ.,, and the Dean OF the Faculty, w. PAINE, Nj. u
All orders Tor scholarships or other business OF the Uni
versity, should be addressed to Professor ". PAINE, NJ
D., Philadelphia, Pa.