Word: loco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wishes of their parents or guardians. To believe that any improvement in the character of the service is bound to reconcile the college to its involuntary bondage and to remove the anomalous character of the proceeding is absurd. In everything else the college refuses to stand in loco parentis. In this matter it insists upon so standing. And yet here, even it fails in really occupying the position of parent in relation to the students. The custom (and possibly the wishes) of a large majority of the parents of the students is opposed to morning prayers, especially if they...
...learn anything. On the side of teaching, we have not enough teachers. At Harvard more is thought than ever of the importance of producing effect on character, of training men to respect themselves and rely on themselves. It used to be said that the college stood the student 'in loco parentis.'" The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds of parents, and it was impossible from the very nature of the case that any college instructor would take the exact place of any, even the best parent. So, too, at Harvard the theory of what...
...board have the power, it is presumed that the faculty are acting by their authority; in addition to the powers exercised by the faculty under the authority of the board, they (the faculty) have certain inherent and necessary powers as teachers. They stand in many respects in loco parentis; the making of the rule in question, forbidding a student to hold active connection with a secret Greek college fraternity is within the general powers of the board and faculty, is not in violation of the constitution of Indiana, nor of any act of congress in relation to agricultural colleges...