From the correspondence of teachers, and through the cases known personally by the comparatively few of our old students who have already returned from their summer’s work, we could number up to-day, which is only the fourth day after the opening of the school, at least forty instances of young men and young women of known character and ability who are eager and anxious to come to Fisk University to fit themselves for teaching and other Christian work among their people, who cannot come because they have not and cannot get sufficient money. The number will be doubled by the time this article reaches our friends through the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. In many cases they can pay from five to seven dollars of the twelve dollars a month required for their board and tuition. We find from actual experience that an average of fifty dollars will help at least one such struggling student to support for a year in Fisk University. The balance and the money necessary to purchase books they can generally provide for themselves. We ask the readers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY what we shall do with these cases. Any one who will send us a thousand dollars will answer the question for at least twenty. Every fifty dollars will give the answer in the case of one. Our hearts ache when we are compelled to refuse, for the want of money, these eager applications. Every one who has an answer to give us can send it to H. W. Hubbard, Assistant Treasurer of the American Missionary Association at New York—and we know the answer will suffer no long delay in his hands—or to E. P. Gilbert, Assistant Treasurer of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. All students helped will in due time communicate by letter with those who thus befriend them. Will not every individual or Sabbath-school that contributed last year to help aid students continue that help for the coming year, and give us the earliest possible information of such intention? E. M. CRAVATH, _Pres. Fisk University_. THE LANGUAGE OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA.