The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-19
Employment for 81 udents asking for work
TO do Here is the letter:

Employment for Students, asking for work
to do Here is the letter:
am a Young man from South Africa. a
Zulu by birth am earning an education
such a. vii bel me, under tod 10 raise ny
SSwsp ,BSop,' conr nav S,Iy 1rnoars"i7, nGi
expenses. and so would count " special
aid II YOU could get mo place where | can
work for my board or part OF II
understand almost al general work.
such taking care Of horses, furnaces.
gardens and otner things OF tits kind r.
sides ] have waited on table, washed dIshcs
and 50 on
hay" done some copyinr, and 'rapslatins
from English into Iuhl. hut I fear this il not
rossihle to rot here INN not ~ al ~ It ocular
tho hos, you can do u satisfy ~" highly
appreciate Hhat has already been don" for
me.
His plans for his college course and his
future after il are definite and well laid
He knows ills, what he wants To do and
how To SCI abOu; i
First he intends IN obtain the ordinary
bachelors degree az Columbia Then he
viii enter tho College NJ Physicians and
Surgeons and earn an VI ". When no ha-
that he will SO 20 England.
He will try for on" az the Cecil Rhodes
scholarships to help him along there. "
he docs not got one hc will g. there any
way. for that is a necessary part Of the
scheme Of education
He intends later 10 practise medicine
among hi> own people in south Africa
and to Do that he must hold n British redi-
cal degree An American VI. u. j. not
recognized in South Africa, fact which
makes this young mans educational course
longer by eightoen months After putting
in that length If tim" in medical studies
a, an English college. though, h" will then
be qualified to TAX. that.
After twelve hong years of preparation
hr will then begin his work I'm South Africa
II will Start in Tho Zulu lndu,tria Institute,
college already organized IN Natal oh
tho model "f Tilskege" in this country.
II has $50 pupil, now. and eight years
hence it l. expected To hc lalg" and DOW
crful native institution
He ia unique in The annals of columbia,
said one OF the professor, ther" who has
been watching the young man. 70 4 SrN
reporter. 'hu' h. is gong ahoni things 'hc
RICH, way AID lac will yin. he has earned
a scholarship in IN" university already.
and il be CONTINUES ~ h" has begun there
are honors in store for ham.
Personally he j. IN exceedingly modest
yoIrg man, To the reporter he discamed
laughiugly an inheritance OF royal blood.
and fcelifgiv and apprccia'ively. in some.
told the story of tho Findley mission schonl
a. IL has been told here.
There j. rpthng rcmarkab" about me.
he said, "ThcrN are four # u, here, and
am ,h" loa>' interesting of the four, But
this IL how We have come here. ard these
II have had several offers Of work here
already and think shall get aloHg well.
Afprward there will he plenty To do.
There arc about quarter Of million
of my count rymcn w South Africa aud The
number /, Increasing rapidly under British
rule now tina, there are no wars Ia dumi'-i>i
the population, There j. my future"
He il no, the only forciSL student al Coz
lumbia NV many. though he l. the only one
who has conc quito 50 far, aud under quit"
such odd conditions lr-th" lat fcw wears
tho university hos gathered To herself an
extensive colony Of foreign born under
graduates. Japan. South Amc RIGA Cuba,
Sweden Denmark. Russia and even Eng and
furnish recruits.
Next ia the new Xlu freshman. he who
has travelled farthcst Is Malcolm YohAunss.
who came all the way from urnim in he
mort Of Persia, to study a. Columbia
Thou there are Robert Hume, an English
man from Armenia Jar In india, who was
graduated from Yale in the class of 'as
and IL now taking advantage Of tohimhia'-
special course in lndo-lraniar languages;
Varabed M1-h'otz Papaliantz Of tho
Pa'riarchate Of Constantn in Armenia who
is taking "a course in sociology; a Mexican
bearing the pious name OF jesus de 10 Fucnte
who L. studying science ana incidentally
has been captain Of the Varsity gy mna. ium
team for the ast two years, girl from
Honolulu who l. taking course in manual
training. and a Swedish young woman
studying music. both M Barnard, not TO
speak Of separate colonies OF Germans,
Cubans. Japanese and Central Americans.
The science school and the manual train
ing courses and the many special courses il
ont of the way subjects attract n great
many OF these foreigners to Columbia.
Their number grows as the attention paid
TO these things in the university curriculum
increases.
sity surprisingly little SO far but as more
and more of them gat her within its shelter