The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-15
pHILADELpHIA UNIVERSITY OF


rJNHE PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY OF MED1.
CINE AND SURGERY was organized in 1s4s.
Chartered by tho Legislature, February rs. 1858.
Nar1 changed by q Legislative enactment TO the
Eclectic aed zeal College, OF Philadelphia, in $780,
In 1868 1t purchased the Pennsylvania Medical COL
lege established in iS42, and the Philadorhia Medi
cal College, which had previously been merged into
the Pennsylvania Medical college. In 1854 IL pur'
chased the Penn Medical Univ rsiy. Tine Trustees
of the separate schools united, pedtoned and OBJ.
tanned special Act of the legislature, consolidating
these institutions and cha gng their names to that
OF the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Sur
gerry March TO- 1865. all these various Acts are pub.
H. he'd in the statutes OF Pennsylvania The cost OF
the iuilding and museum was over one hundred
thousand dollars. It will be observed that the Uni
versty, now organized, Is the legal representative
of the four Medical Colleges that II has absorbed.
It Is liberal school of medicine, confined to no
dogma, nor attached 10 any medical cliques, but
embraces in its teaching everything OF value to the
profession. 4. -tl
mencng on the 1st of October, and continuing until
the lst OF January, its first session, and from the
lst OF January 10 the 1st OF April as its seoond the
two constituting one full course OF lectures 1t has
also q summer session, commencing the LIST April
and continuing until August, Tor the preparatory
branches, such as Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Bola-
ny, Zoology. Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology. etc.
Hckets.-Ttckets to the full course OF lectures $l2u
or 500 for each session. For the summer or pre-
paratory course S25. Graudating fee S3U. 10 aid
Young men OF moderate MEANS the University has
issued five hundred scholarships, which are sold to
hrst-course students tor S75 and to second-course
students and clergymep for $50, each constituting
the holder life member, with the perpetual privi
leges of the lectures and all the teachings OF the
school, The only additional fees are early dis
sectng and maricunting ticket each OF which Is So.
The Adoantages of fSchoLdrships.- student hold
ing a scholarship can enter the College at any time
during the year, attend as long as he chooses, and
re-entcr the institution as frequently as de.ired.
It requires no previous reading or study to enter
the University on scholarships, hence, all private
tuition fees are IRved.
Students, by holding scholarships, can prosecute
other business Fart Of the time.
The candidate for graduation can present himself
at any tmc and receive his degree as soon as quail
fed.
In case q student should hold scholarship and
not able to attend lectures, 1t Gun bs transferred
TO another. thus preventing any loss.
Parents guardians or friends Of students wishing
to purchase scholarship tor them year or more
before their attendance ut the University
them by advancing one.haf the price and 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 optain an honorable pro-
fession. r
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physi-
clans and surgeons. The University hns associated
with 1t large hospital clinic, whele every form OF
medical and surgical disease is operated on and
treated in the presence OF the class.
COLLEGE BUuDMa.-The College building, located
In Ninth street. south Of Walnut is the fnost in the
CITY, Its front Is collegiate gothic, and is adorned
with embellishments and embrasures, presenting
novel, bold, and beautiful appearance. The facade
is of brown stone, ornamented by two towers rising
to the elevation OF eighty feet, and crowned with
an embattled parapet The building contains be-
tween fifty and sixty rooms. an supplied with water
gas and every other convenience that modern i'm
provement can contribute to facilitate medical in
struction Only Eve hundred scholarships will be
issued, and as two hundred and fifty arc now sold,
uhn Iviah IN
Money can be reunited by express, or draft or
check sent on any National Bank in the United
States, when the scholarship will be re.drned by
mail, signed by the President OF the Board Of Trus
Faci,Itv. ". PAINE, NJ D. All orders for scholar
shps or other business of the University should be
addressed to Professor W. PAINE, III. D., Phnadel-
phia, Pa.