The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-06
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
DICINE AND SURG cry

MEDICIN AND SURG cry.
THE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
| l. Medicine and Surgery was organized in lS4o
Chartered by the Legislature, February 26, 1888
Name changed by legislative enactment to t9e
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia in 1860
In 1853 it purchased the Pennsylvania Medical
College, established in 1912, and the Philadelphia
Medical College, which had previously beer
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College
In 1854 it purchased the Penn Medical Universe
| ty. The Trustees of the separate schools united
petitioned, and obtained special act OF the Leg.
| islature, consolidating these institutions and
changing their names to that of the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery, March l5
1868. 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 oil
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.
iSesSions.-It has two full sessions each year,
commencing ON the LIST of October, and continu-
ing until the LIST of January as its first session,
and from the LIST of January to the LIST OF April as
| its second the two constituting one full course
of lectures 1t has also summer session, COM
mencng the first of April and continuing until
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
IfcketS-Tickets to the full course of lectures
Sl2O, or $50 for each session. For the summer
or preparatory course S25. Graduating fee $50
To aid young men of moderate means, the Univer-
sity has issued fue hundred scholarships, which
are sold to tirst-cOurse students for S75, and to
secondcourse students, and clergymen for 800
each constituting the holder ola life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures and
all the teachings of the school. The only addi-
tionai fees are yearly dissecting and matrlcula-
ting ticket, each of which is So
The advantages Of SehOlarMip.-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 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
qualified.
In case a student should hold scholarship
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-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 Faculty embraces seventeen eminent ply
sicians and surgeons. The University has asso-
ciated 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 BUILDlNG.-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-
rance. The facade is of brown stone, orna-
Il -nted by two towers, rising to the elevation of
eighty feet, and crowned with embattlcd 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
ton. 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 at
once. Money can be RENTED by express, or
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.