William Warder Cadbury

“ As we look back to the beginnings of our great medical schools in the United States, we recall that they owe their origin to physicians trained in Europe who devoted their lives to developing the art of medicine in the American colonies. Can we, who have reaped what they have sowed, do better than follow their example, and help the men in this great land of China to realize their ideals of establishing schools of medicine modeled after the institutions of Europe and America? ”

“ The purpose of the school is threefold:
To transform and mold the character of Chinese youth by leading them to a knowledge of Jesus Christ. To give in the English or Chinese language a course in western medicine modeled after that of the best schools in America. To cooperate with the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania in its work with the undergraduate body in Philadelphia. Until the present year the University Medical School has had no buildings of its own, but has rented from the Christian College. ”

“ There has been hearty endorsement of this plan, and it is now hoped that by next March this union school will be started with instruction given in the Chinese language. The plan is to have classes admitted every year to be taught in Chinese, and to admit classes taught in English when sufficient students apply.
The opportunity for original research in a tropical city like Canton is unlimited. The school aims, also, to give opportunities in this direction. ”