INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BODY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27051, 28 May 1953, Page 8

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BODY

MANY RACES ATTEND UNIVERSITY An international body of students is attending Canterbury University College this year. In the roll of 2000 odd there are at least 60 representatives of foreign races, excluding many from overseas English-speaking countries.

Austria. Ceylon, China, Denmark, Fiji, France, Holland, Hungary, India, Latvia, Malaya, Poland, Rumania, Russia, and Samoa are the countries represented. The students are all seeking full degrees of the University of New Zealand.

Two Australians are studying for 1 bachelor of arts (one in history) and another is taking engineering. Chinese students are taking engineering (four), science (two) and fine arts (one). A lone Dane is taking engineering. One Fijian is in the Engineering School and Indians from Fiji have varied their courses, two studying for bachelor of arts (one of them advancing English), one for bachelor of laws, one for bachelor of commerce, and one for bachelor of engineering. The French student plans to be an engineer. A Hungarian is taking both the bachelor of commerce and accountancy courses. The Dutch are the largest overseas contingent. Their choices are:— arts, four; science, three; commerce, three; fine arts, two; engineering, two; law, one. Students from India are working for bachelor of arts in geography, bachelor of agricultural science, and bachelor of science degrees. Latvia has a student in the science faculty, a Malay is working on agricultural science, a Pole is taking engineering, two Rumanians are also studying engineering and there is one Russian studying science. All these nationalities have been ascertained as surely as possible. Of five students whose homeland is unknown, three are taking fine arts, one engineering and one arts.

All these students join fully in the activities of the college and their presence goes almost unnoticed except for some soft accents and dusky complexions.