Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-15
ROYAL ZULU IN NEW YORK.
He Will Work His Way Through Col
lege and Study to Uplift His Race.

From the New York Tribune.
Pfxley IA Isaka Seine, Zulu of the royal
blood from Natal. South Africa, Will enter
Columbia University next week and stay
there for seven years when he thinks he
will be fit to return to his native country
and do missionary work in behalf OF the
Zulus Mr.. Seine is above the ordinary in
telligence of the average freshman who en-
tiers the university, according to the state
ments of the authorities. He holds schol-
arship in the university and expects TO
work his way through college, believing that
It will be best for him to rely on his own
resources and not depend on outside help.
He is willing to undertake almost any kind
of work as shown in the following letter to
Reuben A. Meyers, secretary of the Column
bia faculty committee on employment for
students:
Il feel that l had better write you let
ter of introduction. l am young man
from South Africa, Zulu by birth. 1 am
earning an education such as will help me.
under God. to raise my own people. l have
now scholarship in Columbia College but
/ feel that | cannot fully face my boarding
expenses, and so 1 would count 1t special
aid II you could get me a place where 1 can
work for my board part of it. 1 under
stand almost all general work, such as TAX
ing care of horses furnaces, gardens and
such like. Besides, have waited on table,
washed dishes and so on. have done some
copying and translating from English into
Zulu. but l fear this is not possible to get
here. / not at all particular; the best
you can do will satisfy me. ] highly appre-
ciate what has already been done for me-"
Mr.. Seine has been in this country for a
little over four years and has been prepar-
ing TO enter college at Mount Hermon,
Mass, one of Dwight L. Moody's schools.
He was undecided whether to go to Yale or
Columbia, but at length determined that he
would come to the local university because
of the greater advantages for work which
he would have in the city He Is going to
earn his way through college for four years,
and then enter the College of Physicians
and Surgeons so that at the end of seven
years he may have the degrees OF Id. and
ALB. Then he will make an effort to go
abroad and get one of the Cecil Rhodes
scholarships. so that he may get a British
medical diploma, without which he cannot
practice his profession in South Africa.
When he has completed his education his
country and teach and instruct his fellow
countrymen, and better their condition so
far as lies in his power.
In Africa he will be engaged in the Zulu
Industrial Institute, OF which his cousin.
John L. DUDE, is the head. This institu-
ton Is modelled on the plan Of the Tuskegee
Institute. which is doing in this country
the same work for the American negro
lndI the Lulu enterprise Is uOluR lot the
natives of Africa. Mr.. Seine says that both
his brother and two cousins will also be oc-
cupied eventually in the same missionary
work. One cousin is already here. In his
four years in Columbia he will pursue the
usual college course. Through the efforts
of Mr.. Meyers Mr.. Seine has already OBJ
tained work which Will enable him to go
through college with little expense for his
board and lodging.
Mr. Meyers, in speaking Of Mr.. Seme's
case yesterday, said:
Mr.. Seine Is certainly a remarkable
young man. Coming from the royal blood
OF his tribe. an uncivilized and savage race,
he has come TO this country to study for
| eleven years to prepare himself for the re-
! demption OF his people. He has no thought
of financial gain, and asks no help save to
work for his board and lodging, for which
we have already been able to find him a
means of employment Mr.. Seine Is a
| bright shrewd young man. and knows far
| more about his plans and what he expects
! to do both in college and out, than many OF
| the green freshmen who come to this ONCE
| Mr.. Seine is the only Zulu in the university
and, so far as we know, the only one In any
American college"
Mr.. Seine will be twenty-one years old or
| October 2. He Is about five feet six inches
tall and weighs one hundred and thirty
| four pounds.