Much less is being said nowadays, in favor of having work done by students in college papers substituted for the requirements of English courses. Almost the only approach to such a system is in cases where work meeting the requirements of a college course is also contributed to a student periodical,- which is of course an entirely different thing, though it meets what is in many cases the desired end.
Any further advance in the direction of having work done on college papers by the editors counted in the regular work for the degree, is in most colleges not only impracticable, for lack of adequate means of supervision, but, if the right view were taken of the matter, would not be desired by the students themselves. Work on college papers is usually undertaken as an agreeable diversion subordinate to the regular work of the University. It is not intended to supply deficiencies in the curriculum and, if subjected to strict oversight and compulsorily kept up, would lose half its charm.
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