To many students the red tape in the management of some few of the courses here seems wholly unnecessary and is in some cases decidedly annoying. To ask students to present their work in a certain specified form is well enough, but to insist upon it, even to ask all the students of a course to buy a pamphlet of instructions as to how to behave in a course is little short of absurd. In History 13, for example, it is carried so far that each student is required to pay a small fee to meet the expense of the elaborate printing necessary for the course. Now the amount is small, but the principle seems wholly wrong, for certainly the ideal way of managing a course, at least from the student's point of view, is not to make it as formal as possible, but rather to let the management be as simple as is practicable.
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