The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-08-23
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine and Surgery,

The Philadelphia Univcrity Of Medicine and Surg
cry was Organized I'm 1873. Chartered by the Lcgisla.
ture, February %, 1865. Name changed by a lcgi,la-
tive enactment ~ tho Eclectic Medical College Of Phil
adclphia 10 l-GO. In 1868 It purchased the penhsylya.
MIA Medical College, established in 1872, aud the Phil
adelphia Medical College, which had previously been
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College. III
1864 It purchased the Peun Medical University. The
Trustees Of the separate schools united, prtitioneh,
aud obtained a special act Of The Legislature. ronsuli.
dating these institutions and changing their names to
that Of the Philadelphia University of Medicine and
Surgery, March u, 1865. All these various acts are
published In the statutes Of Pennsylvania. The cost
of the building and museum was over one hundred
Thousand dollars. 1t viii be observed that the Uni
yer.iiy, as now organized, is the legal representative
Of the four medical colleges that it has absorbed. 1t
is a liberal school Of medicine, confined 10 no dogma,
nor attached to any medical clique hut embraces In
IL. teachings everything Of value to the profession.
SESSIONS.-lt has two foil sessions each year, com
menSing on the LIST Of October, and continuing unth
the 1t Of January ~ lis Hrst session, and from the lst
II January tothe lst of April ~ it. second the two
constituting one full course Of Lectures. II has alsoa
summer session, commencing the lat " April and con
tiAuins until August, for the preparatory branches
| such A. Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
TlCKkIS.-Tlcket- to the full course Of lectures
tl2O, or go fur each session. For the summer or pre-
puratory course t25. Graduting fee $50. To aid
Young Memo moderate means, the University has Is
sued five hundred scholarships, which are sold to lrst.
course students, for 875, aud 10 sscund-cuuTsc students
and clergyman for $50, each constituting the holder a
life member, with the perpetual privileges Of the lee
lures, and All tie teachings Of the school. The only
additional fees are \ yearly dissectiug aud matricula-
ting ticket, each Of which is g..
THE ADVANTAGES OF SCHOLARSHIPS The
student holding a scholarship can cutter the College At
any time during tho year, attend ~ long IA he chooses,
Gnd re-cntsr The Institution as frequently As desired.
II requires no previous readingO or stndy to enter the
University on scholarships, hence, all private tuition
fees are saved.
students, by holding scholarships, can prsecuts 9th.
or business Il part of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself at
anytime, and receive his degrees a. soon us qualified.
In case a student should hold 4 scholarship and not
he able to attend lectures il eau be transferred to
another, Thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians, or friends u students wishing
to purchase scholarships for them q year or more be.
fore thrir attendance az the University, ean secure
them by advancing one-hAlf the price, and paying The
balance when the student enters. Physicians and be-
ney"lent men can be,tow great benefit upon pool
young men, ly presenting them scholarship, and
thus enabling them to obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physician
and surgeons. The University has associated with j
4 large hospital clinic, whers every form Of medica
sud surgical disease Il operated On and treated In ih'
COLLEGE BUILDING-Tha College building, 10
Gated in Ninth Street, south Of Walnut, g., the finest II
the city. lts front IL collegiate gothic, and is adorne'
With embaile nent. and embrasures, presenting a nov
81, bold, and beautiful appearance. The facade Il o
brown stone, ornameutCd by two towers, rising 10 th
elevation 81 eighty feet, and crowned with an en-
haiied rarapst. The building contains between CT,
and sixty rooms, al supplied with wafer, gas, and cV
cay other convenience that modern Improvement ca
contribute 10 facilitate medical Instruction. Only nv
hundred scholarships will be issued, and a. two hun
dred and my are now sold, those who wish 10 secur
one should do ~ At once. Money can be RENTED b
express, or a dr4ft or check sent on any Nations
bank iu the United States, when the scholarship vii
be- returned BY mail, signed by the President u IN
Board ~ Trustees, jos. =. Fisher, Esq, and the Dca
n the Faculty, ". Paine, NJ. u. Al orders for scho
larslIps or other business Of the University, should .
addressed to ProfesserW. Paine, NJ. D., Philadelphia
Pennsylvania.