The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-23
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF
MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

NNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDI.
Il CINE AND SURGERY was organized In 1848.
Chartered by the Legislature February 26. 1853.
Narae changed by legislative enactment to ths
Eclectic Medical College, OF Philadelphia, IN 1860.
In 1853 1t purchased the Pennsylvania Medical Col
lege. established in iSA2, and the Philad SIhia Medt.
cal College, which had previously been m erged into
the Pennsylvania Medical college. In 1854 1t pur.
chased the Penn Medical Univ, rsity. Tne Trusteei
Of the separate schools united, peddoned and OBJ,
tanned special Act Of the Legislature, consolidating
these institutions and cha ging their names to that
OF the Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Sur
gerry, March 15 1885, All these various Acts ore pub
Ii he'd In the statutes Of Pennsylvania. The cost o;
the uilding and museum WIS over one hundred
thousand dollars. It will be observed that the Uni
versity as now organized Is the legal representative
Of the four Medical Colleges that II has absorbed.
It Is liberal school of medicine, confined to M
dogma, nor attached 10 my medical cliQues bu.
embraces In its teaching everything of value to thu
profession.
SesionI.-It has two full sessions each year. con.
mencing on the 1st Of October and continuing until
the 1st Of January, as its first session, and from tie
1st OF January 10 the lst oil April, as Its second; tie
two constituting one full course of lectures. It hts
also d summer session, commencing the 1st April
and continuing until August, for the preparatory
branches, such as Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Bots
ny, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy Physiology, ete.
TcketS-Tickets TO the full course OF lectures Sl0
or $50 for each session. For the summer or pra-
parntory course S25. Graduating fee S30 10 aid
young men OF moderate means, the University hls
issued FIVE hundred echolarships which are sold 10
frs.course students tor $75. and to secoud-courje
students and clergymen for 500, each constituting
the holder life member, with the perpetual priJf-
leges of the lectures, and all the teachings OF t1e
school. The only additional fees are early s.
secting and matrculaing ticket each OF which is SIS.
The Advantages of fSchOldrshtps.-The student hold
ing scholarship Gun enter tho College at any time
during the year, attend az long as he chooses and
re.enter the institution ms frequently as de-ired.
1t requires no previous reading or study to enter
he ty prOlarshiD6 l6QCe.
tuition fees nre saved.
Students, by holding scholarships, cnn prosecute
other business q Fart of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himnelf
at any time and receive his degree as soon rs quail
fed.
In case O student should hold 2 scholarship and
not be abe 10 attend lectures it can b. transferred
to another, thus preventing any loss
Parents, guardians or friends OF students wishing
10 purchase scholarship Tor them year or more
before their attendance at tho University can sec are
them by advancing onc-haf the price and pay ing
tho balance when the student enters. Physicians
and benevolent meu can bcStow great benefit upon
poor young men by presenting them scholars Zip,
and thus enabling them to OBTAIN IN honorable pro-
fcssion.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent phTsi-
clans and surgeons The University has associf ted
with 1t large hospital clinic, wheie overy torn OF
medical and surgical disease is operatei On ana
treated in the presence OF The class.
COLLEGE BuILpNa.-1hc College building ioc;'ted
in Nlnth-stree south OF Walnut is the finest IN the
city. Its front is collegiate gothic, and IL ado1 ned
with embellishments and embrasurese presenting
novel, bold, and beautiful appearance Inc faeaoe
Is of brown stone ornarnented by two towers, rlinS
to the elevation oil eighty feet, and crowned Vltn
embattled parapct. The building contains be-
tween fifty and sixty rooms all euppied Wild Wter'
gas, and every other convenience that moucrn I'M
proyemcnt can contribute to facllitafe meulca IN
struction. Only five hundred scholarships Will be
issued, and as two hundred and fifty are now sold