Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-11-21
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
or
MEDICINE and SURGERY.

Tns Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Surge
~ wits organized In lslS, Chartered 10y the Lcg,ln.
turc February ~, 1853 Name changer hy u lcgsln-
tive enactment to the Eclectic Medical College of Phil.
ulclplia In 1861 In 1858 II purchased the pcnn,ylvt-
min Mcdihal College, established In lSi2, and the Phil
adclphia Medical College, which he'd been previously
merged into the Pennsylvania Medical College. In
lsG5 1t purchased the Penn Medical University. The
Trustees Of the separate schools united petitoncd, and
obtained special act of the Legislature consolidating
these institutions and changing their names to that Of
the Philadelphia University Of Medicine and Surgery
March Is, 1868. All these various acts published
IN the statutes of Pennsylvania. The cost OF the build
ng AMI museum was over one hundred thousand dol
lars. II will be- Observed that the University rs now
organized Is the legal representative OF the four mcd
cal colleges that it has absorbed. II is liberal school
of medicine, confined to dogma nor attached to any
medical clique; but embraces in its teachings every
thing of value to the profession.
SEssIoSs.-It has two full sessions each year COM
mcrcing the LIST of October and continuing until tho
LIST OF january its first session. and from the LIST OF
January 10 the LIST OF april ~ its second: the two con-
sttUtng one full course Of lectures. II has also
mcr session, commencing the LIST of April and contin
ing until August, for the preparatory branches, such
~ Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Anat.
Omy Physiology, etc.
Observation-Disclosures to the full course of lectures S2O,
or SGD for each session. For the summer prcparato
ry course SO. Graduating fee $50. TO aid youny men
q moderate means, the University has issued fire hun
bred schodrehp which sold to rstcOursc STUDENT
for $50 aud to secondcOurse students and clergymen
lor so, each constituting the holder life member,
with the perpetual privileges of the lectures, and all
the teachings of the school, The only additional fees
are yearly dissGcting and matrculatng ticket each
OF which is s..
THE ADVANTAGES OF sCHoLARsnIps--Tlc student
holding scholarship enter the College ut any tins
during the year attend as long he chooses, and
enter the institution us frequently rs desired.
1t requires no previous reading study to enter the
University on scholarship, hence all private tuition
fees are saved.
Students, by holding scholarships, can prosecute
other business part OF the time
The candidate for graduation can present HIMSELF
any time, and receive his degree soon as qualified
In case a student should hold scholarship and ne
he able ia attend lectures it he transferred to
thor, thus preventing any loss.
Parents, guardians friends of students Wishing to
purchase scholarships for them year more before
their attendance at the University them by
advancing onehalf 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 enable them
to obtain an honorable profession.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons The University has associated with it
large hospital clinic, where every form of medical and
surgical disease is operated and treated in the pres
ence of the class.
COLLEGE BULpING.-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
batcmcnts and embrasurcs, presenting novel, bold
and beautsful appearance. The facade is of brown :
stone, ornamented by two towers, rising to the eeva
ton of eighty feet. and crowned with an cmhattlcd
parapct. The building contains between fifty and
sixty rooms all supplied with water gas, and every
other convenience that modern Improvement can con-
tribute to facilitate medical instruction. Only five
hundred scholarships will I've issued and two hun
dred and fifty sold, these whip wiso to secure
one should do so at once. Money can be RENTED by
express draft check sent any National bank
in the United States when the scholarship will be
turned by mail signed by tho President of the Board
Of Trustees JOS S. Fisher, Esq and the Dean Of the
Faculty, W Paine, NJ. D. All orders for scholarships
or other business the University should he address,
cd to PROFESSOR W. PAINE. VI. D.,
Philadelphia, Pa.