The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-26
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
.s'.. OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

tv,EE .pHulDEIpHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
IL AND SURGERY organized In lS4S. Chartered
by the Legslature February ~. 1853 Mar changed
by leQslatye enactment TO the Eclectic ked !cal Col
ege of Philadelphia in 1860 In 1853 pucfas ed the
Pennsylvania Medical College, established IN io43 ana
the Phildeyhia Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical college "a
1854 1t purchased the Penn Medical Univ rsity The
Trustees Of the separate schools united ana
obtained special Act of the Lepisature, consolidating
these institutions and cha gng their names TO that OF tne
Philadelphia University of Medicine and surgery,
March 16 1865 All these various Acts are publ he'd In
the stattes of Pennsylvania The cost Of the uilding
and museum was over one hundred thousand oolars II
will be observed that the University, as now organzed
the legal representative of the four Medical Colleges thar
II has absorbed It liberal school OF medicine con-
fined to no dogma attached TO any medicai cnques
but embraces In It's teaching everything Of value to the
profession. .-.gr
e,sons-It has two full sessions each year. commerc-
ing on the LIST of October and continuing until the LIST OF
January its first session. and from the lst OF January
to the LIST April 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 Laun areeH,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology Chemistry, Anatomy
iIckets@ckets to the full course OF lectures s120. or
$50 for each session For the summer or prepaatery
course s25 Graduating tee $50. To aid young men OF
moderate means the University has issued hve hunored
scholarships which sold to frstcourse students for
s75 and secondcourse students and clerSymen Tor
$50 each constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual privileges of the lectures and all the teachings
the school, The only additional fees are early dis
The AdpdntdQes of Shodrships- student holding
scholarship enter the College at time during the
year. attend long he chooses and reener the nsu
tuition frequently as de-ired
It requires previous reading or study to enter the
University scholarships hence all private tuition ices
are saved.
Students by holding scholarships prosecute other
business Fart Of the time. ..i..,,
The candidate for graduation can present hlmseif at
any time aud receive his degree as soon as quaiheo
In suuen should hold scholarship and nor %
able lectures, 10
thus preventing any loss.
Parents guardians friends Of students wishing to
purchase scholarship Tor them year or more before
eir attendance ut the University can secure them py
advancing onehaf the price and paying the balance
when the student enters. Physicians and benevolent
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men Dy
presenting them scholarship, and thus enabling tnem
TO OBTAIN an honorable profession
The Faculty embraces seventeel minent physicians
and surgeons Tho University has associated with IL
large hospital clinic, whee every form OF medlca ana
surgical disease is operated and treated in the pres
OF the class.
COLLEGE BUILp1NG.-Tbe College building. located in
Ninth street. south OF Walnut is the finest in the CITY,
Its front is collegiate gothic and Is adorned with e
batuements and embrlsures, presenting novel, Doiu
and beautiful appearance The facade is OF brown stone
ornaaented by two towers, rising to the elevation OF
eighty fect, and crowned with embattled parapet
The building contains between fifty and SIXTY rooms al
supplied with water gas and every other convenience
that modern improvement can contribute 70 aclntate
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
will be issued and two hundred and nfty are now
sod those wish should do so at once
Money be RENTED by express or draft or cneck
sent on any National Bank in the United States, when
the scholarship will be returned by mall signed by the
President OF the Board of Trustees JOSEPH FlSHER
ESQ.,, and the Dean of the Faculty, W. PAINE, M ".
All orders scholarships other business OF the uni
yersty should be addressed to Professor W. PAINE NJ
D., Philadelphia, Pa.