The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-20
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

fINHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY or MEDICINE
Il AND SURGERY organized in 1SiS. Chartered
by the Legislature February rs. 1853, Narie changed
by q legislative enactment to the Eclectic Aed.cA Col
lcge OF Philadelphia in 1860 In 1863 it purcEas Cd the
Pennsylvania Medical college, es ablshed III ioi anc
the Phadelrha Medical College, which had previously
been merged into the Pennsylvania Medical olege In
1854 it purchased the Penn Medical Univ rsi;y Tue
Trustees Of the separate schools united, peoned and
obtained special Act of the Lepis ature consolidating
these institutions and gng their names TO that OF ne
phladelpha University OF Medicine and surgery
March l5 1868 All these various Acts are publ he'd IN
the statutes OF Pennsylvania. The cost OF the uding
and museum was over hundred thousand dollars. 1t
will be observed that The University, now organized Is
the legal representative OF the our Medical Colleges tha
il has absorbed II is liberal school OF medicine con-
fined to no dogma attached 10 any medical cnques
but embraces its teaching everything oil value 10 the
profession.
ing on the October and continuing until the lst oil
January its first session. and from the st OF January
the ls April Its second; the TWO constituting ono
full course OF lectures 1t has also summer session
commencing the 1st April ald continuing until August,
Tor the preparatory branches such Is Latn, Greek,
Mathematics, Botany, Zoology Chemistry, Anatomy
fcketsGTckets to the full course of lectures $780,
$50 for each session For the summer or preparatory
SOS. Graduating fee $50. 10 aid young men OF
moderate MEANS the University has issued hvc nuloreo
scholarships which sold to 1rscourse students or
S75 and to secondcourse students and cetsymcn Tor
$50 CD constituting the holder life member, with the
perpetual riyeges OF the lectures and all the teachings
OF the school. The only additional ices carly dis
sectng matricuatlng ticket each OF which Is So
The Advantages OF Scholarsps-rhe student holding
scholarship enter tho College at any time durns ho
year, atten1 long US he chooses ana reenei the ns
tuition as f.equentiy as de-red.
1t requires no previous reading study TO enter the
University scholarships hence all private tuition ices
saved. .
Students by holding scholarships prosecute other
business Fart OF the timo. .
The candidate Tor graduation can present nlmseii al
any time, and receive his degree US soon rs qualned
In casea stu ent should hold scholarship and not be
able 10 attend lectures 1t can be transferred 10 anone
thus preventing an loss.
Parents guardians friends OF students wishing 10
purchase scholarship for them year or more before
their attendance ut University can secure them by
advancing onehalf the price and payln3 the oaanco
men can besoT great benefit upon poor young men ny
presenting scholarship, und thuG enapine thchi
10 OBTAIN az honorable profession
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with 1t a
large hospital clinic, whce every form OF medical ana
surgical disease is operated on aud treated III the pres
ence OF The class.
COLLEGE BUILDNa.-The College building located in
Ninth street. south Of Walnut Is the finest III the cry
Its front collegiate gothic, and is adorned with en
batements and embrasures. presenting novel, ooid'
and beautiful appearance. The facade IS Oh DroW sIpHc
ornar1ened by two towers, rsin9 to the elevation OF
eighty feet, and crowned with an embattied parapet
The building contains between fifty and sixty rooms al
supplied with water gas and every other convenience
that modern Improvement contribute 10 iacilitc
medical instruction. Only five hundred scholarships
Will be issued, AMI as Two hundred ana MY are no"
so those wish to secure one should % 50 at once
Money be RENTED by express or draft or CHECK
seut on National Bank the United States when
the scholarship will be returned BY mail, snDed by tue
President OF the Board or Trustees, JOSEPH 3 FISHER
ESQ., and the Dean OF the Faculty, W. PAINE, Nj. u.
All orders ior scholarships o. other business OF the Uni
yersity should be addressed TO Professor W. PAINE A.
D., Philadelphia, Pa.