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1H9S PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY, - - founded in 1898, dates its current corporate functioning from a merger of two Pennsylvania non-profit corporations: Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia and Osteopathic Foun- dation of Philadelphia, and the securing of the right to the name and the authority to operate a college of the healing arts. Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, Inc., the New Jersey corporation which had conducted the College under a cer- tificate from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, gave consent through its Board of Trustees to these legal steps as passed upon by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Court. The academic year 1953-54 marked the start of a new chapter in the institution ' s history without impairment of schedules of classes, clinics, hospital services or any other function. The annual Founder ' s Day observance commemorates the establishment of the College in 1898 by Dr. O. J. Snyder and Dr. Mason Pressley, chartered as a professional school dedicated to improved methods of the healing art in accordance with osteopathic theories of etiology, diag- nosis, the prevention and treatment of diseases in general, and the practice of surgery, obstetrics and the specialties and to osteopathic research and the dissemination of scientific knowledge. It was incorporated as The Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy, January 24, 1899, under the laws of the State of New Jersey. The first class was graduated in 1900. In 1921 the name of Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, Inc. was authorized. The first college was opened in the Stephen Girard Building and shortly afterward was transferred to larger
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• 1903 • 190S • 1917 quarters in the Witherspoon Building. In 1903 it was moved to the northeast corner of 33 rd and Arch Streets. From 1908 to 1911 it was situated at 1715 North Broad Street, and from 1912 to 1916 at 832 Pine Street. In 1916 the Reyburn Mansion at the southeast corner of 19th and Spring Garden Streets was purchased for the College. A fifty-bed hospital building was erected adjoining the College on 19th Street. Subsequently two properties adjacent to the College on Spring Garden Street were purchased to serve as annexes to the College and Hospital. The Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Hospital secured the pres- ent site at 48th and Spruce Streets in 1928, where space in a completely new building was oponed for classes on November 16, 1929. The Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania, May 10, 1911, to estab- lish, support and conduct a general hospital for the treatment of sick and injured persons. The Hospital was the out- growth of a dispensary located at 1617 Fairmount Avenue. In 1911 the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was estab- lished at 410 South 9th Street. When the College moved to 19th and Spring Garden Streets, the Hospital was tempo- rarily quartered at 1725 Spring Garden Street, where it re- mained until completion of the hospital building on the 19th Street site in 1918. The site at the northeast corner of 48th and Spruce Streets was purchased in 1928 at a cost of 165,000. Upon this tract, with a frontage of 281 feet on Spruce Street and 250 feet on 48th Street, units for college, hospital and administration were erected in 1929 at a cost of a million dollars.
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