Newspaper Work at Pennsylvania.

The Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania has recognized the value of work on college papers by making the following provision in their new pamphlet of the English Department:

"Students who have obtained distinction in English at the end of the Sophomore year may, upon election to the editorial board of a recognized University periodical, have certain of their work in composition for Junior and Senior year remitted; the nature and degree of such remission to be wholly in the decision of the instructor in charge, and to be determined by the actual work done."

This provision is to be regarded in the nature of a privilege, earned by unusual excellence in the composition work of the earlier years, and can in no case be claimed as a right, or apply to any pursuit in or out of college except actual work upon the said college journals satisfactorily performed.