THE course adopted by many instructors of giving theses to be written outside of the regular work has been, and deserves to be, the cause of much complaint on the part of the students. When a man has elaborate theses to write, as in Political Economy 3 and History 5, of a hundred pages or so in length, one of two things must happen: either he must neglect his regular work and write them during term time, or he must devote his Christmas recess to the task. Either of these courses seems equally bad, and we cannot believe that the amount of time necessarily employed in looking up a small point in history would not be better employed in the more general work which is sacrificed in order to write the theses. At any rate, since they represent so much work they ought to count at least a third of the annual marks.
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