The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-30
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY

MEDICINE AND SU r G E II Y.
riVHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1913
Chartered BIZ the Legislature, February 26, 1858
Name changed by legislative enactment to the
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia III 1860
IN 1S6S il purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
College, established in 1912, and the Philadelphia
TadiraI College, which had previously been
merred into the Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1854 if purchased the Penn Medical Universe
tv The Trustees OF the separate schools united,
netitoned and obtained special act OF the Leg
isIature, consolidating these institutions and
CHANGING their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March l5,
1866. Ali these various acts are published in the
statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost ofthe build
ing and museum was over one hundred thousand
dollars, Ii will be observed that the University,
As now organized, is the legal representative of
the four medical colleges that it has absorbed
lii a 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.
SssioaS-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the 1st of October, and continu-
ng until the 1st of January as its first session,
and from the 1st of january to the lst OF April as
its second; the two constituting one full course
oflectures. 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
Tekets.-Tickets to the full course of lectures
S120 or $50 for each session. For the summer
or pTeparotary course S25. Graduating fee $50.
To aid y0ulg men Of moderate means, the Univer-
sity has issued tiye hundred scholarships, which
are sold to frSt-course students, Tor $40, and to
secOnd-course students, and clergymen for $50,
each constituting the holder OF Il life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures and
all the teachings of the school The only addi-
tOnal fees are yearly dissecting and matricula-
ting ticket, each of which is So.
The advantages Of SchOldrsIip-The student
holding scholarship can enter the College at
any time during the year, attend as long as he
chooses, and re enter the institution as frequent
ly as desired.
1t 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.
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 a year or
more before attendance at the University, can
secure them by advancing one-half 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
scans and surgeons. The University has asso-
eated with it a large hospital clinic where every
form of medical and surgical disease is operated
on and treated in the presence of the class
COLLEGE BUILDNG.-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-
pearancc. Tie facade is Of brown STONE, orna-
Meated 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-
llon Only five hundred scholarships will be is
sued, and as two hundred and fifty are now sold,
lhosc who wish to secure one should do so at
once Money can be remitted by express, or a
qrait G or check sent on any National bank in the
united States, when the scholarship will be re-
H Iarned by mail, signed by the President of the
Board Bo OF Trustees, JOS s. Fisher, Esq, and the
5osu Ian e Oh the Faculty, W. Paine, NJ D. All Or
Ters Wn lor scholarships or other business of the
ppm;NerSity should be addressed to Professor w.
'ine' NJ d., Philadelphia, Pa.