TGIF, people!

Of the colleges, some of the very best testify that it is more difficult to retain instructors in English composition than in other subjects.  Others report that instructors wear out, suffer from indigestion and nervous exhaustion, lose their efficiency, impair their eyesight, become the prey of shattered nerves, break down and find their ways to the hospital or cemetery, because of the "killing" work in English composition.

{1913 Report on the Cost and Labor of English Teaching}