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Letters written by middle-class, partially Westernized young adults in China and published in a popular periodical there reveal such problems of social change as revolt against the parental generation and the lack of accepted patterns and cues. The change is reflected in the belief in self-improvement through education to replace the support of familia groups. Personal problems are projected outward, and the theme of participation in social progress constantly recurs. That love and marriage through love are regarded as rights to be earned is interpreted as a manifestation of the guilt and anxiety attendant upon revolt.

To the Editor: —The University Medical School of Canton has been a name for six years, and now that it has become a reality it seems only right that our friends in the medical profession should know something about it. The school is under the management of the Board of Directors of the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania, and is affiliated with the Canton Christian College, being located on adjoining property. The purpose of the school is three-fold: 1. To transform and mold the character of Chinese youth by leading them to a knowledge of Jesus Christ. 2. To give in the English or Chinese language a course in western medicine modeled after that of the best schools in America. 3. 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