The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-21
Miscellaneous.
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MED1cINE AND SURGERY

IN Il ID 1C1N Il A N u . N u r n Z
THE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
J. Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1913.
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1858.
Name changed by Legislative enactment to the
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia ii, 1850
In 1858 it purchased the Pennsyivania 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 Universl-
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 ofthe 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
1t 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 LIST of October, and continu-
ing until the 1st of January as its first session.
and from the 1st of January to the LIST of April
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.
Tickets Tickets to the full course of lectures
! S120, or $50 for each session. For the summer
or preparatory course $50. Graduating fee $50
To aid young Of moderate means the Univer-
sity has issued ttve hundred scholarships, which
are sold to first-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 dissecting and matricula-
| ting ticket, each of which is 80.
| The AdVGRtdges 81 SctOtu1Sti2'.-Ihe 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-
| vatc 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 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 FacIlty embraces seventeen eminent ply
sicians and surgeons. The University has asso-
cated 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 BU1LDING;-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 embellishments 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 cmbattled 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 lnstrnc
tion 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 al
once Money can be RENTED by express, or q
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, NJ D. All or
ders for scholarships or other business OF the
University, should be addressed to Professor w
Paine, NJ D., Philadelphia, Pa.