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The teclinical training is such as will enable a graduate to i>roperly 

 fulfil the duties of company officers. The soldier has for all time been 

 taken to represent the perfect type of disinterested devotion to a single 

 cause, and a minister of the gospel esteems it highest praise to be called 

 a "soldier of the cross." The aim of all military training is to make men 

 — good, honest, reliable, patriotic men — and there is a constant effort to 

 cultivate in the students all those virtues that go to make men. 



Obedience to law with perfect self-respect, consideration for those in 

 inferior positions, kindness with firmness, habits of self-control, are some 

 •of the good results of the course in the department. 



Not least in benefit to the student is the development of the body, 

 and for those who come from farms where the work has been mainly 

 along one line, the training is especially good. It is good for a man to 

 have strength, but it is better to know how to use the strength he has. 

 And the various exercises and movements upon the drill grounds soon 

 give increased control over the muscles of the body. 



The military department is a part of the College which aims to follow 

 closely along the lines of practical education. The function of the 

 'department is to make good, law abiding, patriotic citizens. 



CENSUS AND OTHER STATISTICS. 



ROBERT L. HEWITT, LANSING. 



The program says I am to speak upon "Census and other Statistics.'' 

 As a matter of fact I will confine myself, upon this occasion, to census 

 ■data. What are statistics? The answer is, statistics are definite state- 

 ments of facts, or facts systematically arranged or compiled so that prac- 

 tical men can make practical use of them. The census of 1894 is the 

 most complete census ever taken under State authority. What does it 

 show that is of value to the people of Michigan? We shall not have time 

 to make deductions to any large extent. We will present facts as they 

 are brought out by the census, and leave deductions to you. As a starter, 

 the State population is 2,241,641. This was the population June 1, 1894. 

 Of this grand total, 75 per cent are native and 25 per cent foreign bom. 

 But the native population with native parents is only 42 per cent of the 

 total. In the southern four tiers of counties, the oldest and most thickly 

 populated portion of the State, it is one-half the total. It certainly is 

 Interesting, and should be profitable, to know that sixty years after the 

 admission of the State into the union less than one-half of the native 

 inhabitants were bom of native parents. 



CITY AND COUNTRY. 



The next point to be noticed is the relative proportion of the city and 

 country populations. In 1864, thirty years ago, 16 per cent of the 

 inhabitants of the State lived in incorporated cities; in 1894, 37 per 

 cent of all the population lived in incorporated cities, an increase of 21 

 per cent. To the student of social questions at least, this is a stupendous 



