The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-03
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY

MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
TNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
! i Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1S4S
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1853
Name changed by a 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 Is,
1865. All these various acts are published in the
statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost of the 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
It 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 as 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, Physiology, etc
7tcketS.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
| S12O, or $50 for each session. For the summer
| or preparotary course S25. Graduating fee $780,
To aid yoat'ag men Of moderate means, the Unver-
sity has issued Jf0e hundred scholarships which
are sold to tirst-course students, for S75 and to
second-course students, and clergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder of a life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures, and
| all the teachings of the school, The only addi-
tional fees are yearly dissectng and matricula-
| ting ticket, each of which is S5.
! The advantages Of Scholarship-The student
| holding scholarship can enter the College at
| I'M 6nS hA
chooses, and reenter the institution as frequent
! ly as desired.
| It requires no previous reading or study to en-
ter the University on scholarships, hence, all pri
vate tuition fees are 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
as qualified.
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-halt the price,
paying the balance when the student enters
| Physicians and benevolent men can 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 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 BUnDNG.-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 embattlements 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
tn facilitate medical up-
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 a
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 NJ D.. Philadelphia, Pa.