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Under the strain of a lengthy examination, the handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing cannot fail to make a favorable impression--with a consequent and deserved increment in grade.
It is poor policy to let ones capacities be limited by a purely mechanical detail.
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