The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-05-15
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
OF
Medicine and Surgery.

Tux Philadelphia Univcrity ~ Medicine and Surg.
cry was organiIod In lsts. Chartered by the Lerlsla.
lure February ~ 1885, Name changed by a lesislA-
tive enacimcnt to the Ecletio Medical College Of Phil.
Sdelphia In ls60. In lsS3 Il purchased the PennaylVa.
mia Medical college, established In lslg, aud tho PhiI.
AdclPhi1 Medical college, which had previously been
merged into the PennsylyaRiA Medical College. In
ls6a !, purchased the Peuh Medical UHiyersify. The
Irusters OF the separate schools united, potitloned.
ana obtained a special act olths Legislature. CONSOLE.
dains these Institutions and changing their names go
that ~ the Philadelphia Univcrsiiy Of Medicine and
surgery, March Is, lS65. All these various acts are
published In the statutes Of Pcnnsylyania. The eo~t
% the building and museum was over one hundred
thousand dollars, Il viii be ObseIve I'd that the mi.
Versity, a. now organized, Is tho legal representative
Of The Io1r medical colleges that it has absorbed. IL
Isl liberal school u medicine, confined 10 no dogma.
nor attached to any meaical clique; but emhraeea in
Its Teachings everything Of value TO the profession.
~ESsluNS;-lt has two fall sessions each year, com
mcheing on the lat Of October, and continuing until
the lst Of January as it, first session, and fr,m Inc Ist
II January tothe LIST % April an Its secoAd; the two
constituting one iull course Of Lectures. II has also a
summer session, commencing the lat 81 April and con-
uAuing until August, tf The preparatory branches
such a. Latin, Grc~k, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology,
Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, etc.
TlCkETS.-Tiekets to tho fall course Of Lectures
sleo, az 500 for each session. For the summer or pre-
paraioTy course SIS. Gmdating fee $50. To aid
Young hen0i nidderAie means, the University has l..
sued i've hundred scholarships, which are sold 10 art.
course students, for e7S, and to secund-eourss students
sud eieTgymsn far $50, each constituting the holieV a
hie member viih the perpetual privileges 81 the lee
" ~ HNuNNAs Inc NnD
additional lees are a yearly dIasocting aud mafricnla.
ting ticket, each Of which Il So.
THE ADVANTAGES OF sCIIOLARsnIPs.-The
student holding a scholarship can enter The College II
any time during the year, attend ~ long ~ ne chooses,
and Te-ehieF The institution A. frequeniiy a. desirr,.
u requires no previous reading Or study to enter fbe
University On seholanhiPs, hence, al private tuition
fees are saved.
students, BY holding scholarships, can prsceu,e, 10th.
er business a part 81 the time.
The candidate for gnaduaiion eau present himself Al
anytime, and receive hs degree a. sunn AZ quailaed.
In case a student shDuld hold a achalarship aud NOT
be able TO attend lecinns, Il eau 30 transferred 10
ano,her, thus Preventing any 4uss.
Parents, guardians, or friends Of slndsnia wishing
10 purchase scholarships for thcm a year or m.re be.
fore their attendance az The Cniyersiiy, caa secure
them by advancing one-half the ~ Ice, and Vaying iho
balance when The student enters. Physicians and be-
nevuient men can bostow great beneht upon poor
young men, by prescribing thema scholarship, and
thus enabling them 10 obtain an honorable proE-s.ion.
The Faculty embraces seventeen eminent physicians
and surgeons. The University has associated with u
n large hospital clinic, where every form Of BedicaI
and surgical disease Is operated on and treated In The
Presence Of the class.
COLLEGE BUlLDING.-The College building. To-
Gated In Ninth street, south of walnut, Is Inc finest In
the city. lie front L. collegiate gothic. and Is adorned
with embttlements and embrasures, presenting a nov.
81, bold, ahd beautiful appearance. The facade Is of
st"ns' ornamented By two towers. rising TO the
OF eighty feet, and crowned with an eu-
batled panpet. The buiiding contains between hny
and sixty rOonis, All supplied with water, gas. and ev.
cry other convenience that modern improvement can
10 facilitate medical Instruction. Only Ave
scholarships VIII be issued, and as 1--WE hun.
ired and 9ty are now sold, thO-e who wish 10 secure
nne should do saAi once. Mohey can h. emine By
rNpnes-, or a dun or check sent on any National
bank in the United states, when the achoIarship viii
he r~iurned by mail. signed BY the President 81 the
Board q Trustees, joe. 3. Fhher, Esq., and the DIAN
ne Faseliy, Y. Paine, ~ D. An orders for sehol-
arshiPs or ether husin-s, Of fbo uniVersiiy, should be
Pennsylvania.