The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-27
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

lI,HE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY u MEDICINE
/ AND SURGERY organized in 1878. Chartered
by the Legislature February &C. 1853. Nale changed
BY Legislative enactment to the Eclectic Medic Col
lege OF Philadelphia in 1860 In 1868 it purcfas ed the
PENNSYLVANIA Medical College. established in 1872 and
the Philadelphia Medical College, which had previously
been merred into the Pennsylvania Medical College N
1864 it purchased the Penn Medical University. TDe
Trustees of the separate schools united petoned and
obtained special Act Of the legislature. consolidating
these institutions and aging their names to that OF tho
Philadelphia University OF Medicine and Surgery,
March Is 1861 All those various Acts pIbh he'd in
the statutes OF Pennsylvania The cost OF the uding
and museum was over one hundred thousand dollars 1t
will be observed that the UNIVERSITY as now orSaLe Is
the legal representative of the Medical Colleges that
it has absorbed It is liberal school OF medicine con-
fined to no dogma, attached TO any medical cilque
but embraces in its teaching everything OF value to the
profession
Ses7ions-It has two ul sessions each year. commenc-
ing on the 1s of October and continuing until the st OF
January. its first session. and from the LIST OF January
10 thc lat OF Apr as its second the two constituting one
null course Of lectures. II has also summer hesslon
commencing the 1st April add continuing until August.
Tor the preparatory branches such as Laun, ureeh,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology. Chemistry. Anatomy
Physiology. etc. ,o .
fckeTckets to the iull course of lectures sl20. or
500 for each session For the s'nnIner or preparatory
course S25 Graduating Siu. To aid young men OF
moderate means the University has issued i've hundred
schoarsbps which are sold to hrstcourse students tor
sf and TO secoud-course students and clergymen for
$50 esch constituting the holder life member with TIE
perpetua privileges of the lectures, aud all tho teachings
or the school, The only additional fees are early dis
secting and mariculatnS ticket eacn of when Is 20:
the ddran,dg,s Of Scholarships. student holding
scholarship enter the College ut any time during Tue
year attend as long he chooses and reenter the ist
tuition 90 frequently as delred. :,
1t requires no previous reading or study TO enter the
University scholarships hence. all private tuition ieea
are saved. -.
Students by holding scholarships can prosecute other
business part OF the time. .
The candidate for graduation can present himself al
any time. and receive his degree az soon as quahed
In case stlnent should hold scholarship and not be
able 10 attend lectures it can be transferred TO another
thus preventing any loss
Parents guardians or friends Of students wishing to
pur hase scholarship tor them year or more before
ther attendance the University, can secure them by
advancing one-half the price and paying the Daanct
when the student enters Physicians and benevolent
men can bestow great benefit upon poor young men b!
presenting them scholarship, aud tlus enapiug theh
| to OBTAIN an honorable profession
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and Surgeons The University has associated with 1t
large hospital clinic. where every form VI nedicai ano
surgical disease is operated Oh ana Tealeu III 'e pres
ence OF the class.
| COLLEGE BuILp1SG.-Thc College building located il
Ninth street south Walnut is the hnes i'll the city
Its front is collegiate gothic and Is adorned with e
| battlements and embraslres presenting novel, bold
and beautiful appearance The facade Is OF brown stone
ornarnented By two towers rising to the elevation
| eighty feet and crowned with al embatted parapet
THE building contains between fifty aud sixty rooms, al
supplied with water gas, aud every other conren,enc
| that modern improvement contribute TO iacilltat
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarship
Will issued. and two hundred and tity are nov
Sold those wish to secure one should do SO III once
Money can be RENTED by express, or draft or chec
sent on any National Bank i'll the United States, vine
the .hoarshp will BE- returned 10y mail, signed by tn
~ ,ident of the Board Of Trustees JOSEPH s. FISHER
| isq.. and the Dean al the Faculty, w PAINE, NJ
All orders for scholarships other business OF the Un
yersity should be addressed 10 Professor W. PAINE,
| D.. Philadelphia, Pa