Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-24
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

YNHE Philadelphia University Of Medicine and
i Surgery was organized In IS48. Chartered by
the Legislature, February %, 1858. Name changed
by legislative enactment to the Eclectic Medical
chased the Pennsylvania Medical College, estab-
lished In 1872, and the Philadelphia Medical Col
lege, which had previously been merged into the
Pennsylvania Medical College. In 1884 it pur-
tees Of the separate schools united petitioned and
obtained special act Of the Legislature CONSOLE
dating these Institutions and changingthe names
to that of the Philadelphia University of Medicine
and Surgery, March Is, 1885. All these various
The cost of the building and museum was over
one hundred thousand dollars. It will be observ-
ed that the University, as now organized, Is the
legal representative of the four Medical Colleges
that it has absorbed. It is liberal school of med
icine, confined to no dogma, nor attached to any
medical clique; but embraces in its teachings ev-
erything of value to the profession.
SesstonS.-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing on the 1st of October and continu-
ing until the LIST Of January its first session. and
from the LIST Of January to the 1st Of April its
second; the two constituting one full course of
lectures. It has also summer session, eommen-
cling the lst Of April and continuing until August
for the preparatory branches such as Latin, Greek,
o%y. lphys!Tioes ETC. C. Tho , oonrs.
$l2O, or $50 for each session. For the summer or
preparatory course $25. Graduating fee $50. To
aid young men Of moderate means, the University
has issued fve Observation-Disclosures which are sold
course students and clergymen for $50, each con-
stituting the holder q life member, with the per-
petual privileges Of the lectures and all the teach
ings Of the school. The only additional fees are
yearly dissecting and matriculatng ticket, each of
The advantages Of Scholarahips.-The student
holding scholarship can enter the College at any
time during the year. attend as long as he chooses,
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sired.
1t requires no previous reading or studyto enter
the University on scholarships, hence, MI private
tuition fees are saved.
Students, by holding scholarships, can prosecute
other business part Of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present him
self ct time, and receive his degree as soon as
In case student should hold scholarship and
not be abeto attend lectures, 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 their attendance at the University,
can secure them by advancing one-hali the price,
and 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
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on and treated in the presence of the class
College B,ilding.-The College building, located
in Ninth Street, south of Walnut, is the finest in
the city. It's front is collegiate gothic, and is a.
dorned with embattlements and embrasures, pre-
senting novel, bold and beautiful appearance
The facade is of brown stone, ornamented by two
towers, rising to the elevation Of eighty feet and
crowned with an embattled parapet. The build
ing contains between fifty and sixty rooms, all
supplied with water, gas, and every other conve-
nience that modern Improvement can contribute
to facilitate medical instruction. Only five hun
dred scholarships will be issued, and as two hum
dred and fifty are now sold those who wish to Sc
cure one should do so at once. Money can be re-
mitted by express, or 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, Jos. s.
Paine, M. D. Allorders for scholarships or other
business Of the University should be addressed
to Professor w. Paine, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa.