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The day in loco parentis died

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The day in loco parentis died: Photos

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Residents of the all-women's Hinsdale House in Alice Lloyd dormitory, 1965. Photo: Michiganensian. Courtesy U-M Bentley Historical Library.

Mrs. Morris of Hinsdale House. She was among the last of the housemothers. (Detail of photo above.) Photo: Michiganensian. Courtesy U-M Bentley Historical Library.

Co-ed housing promises a bacchanal of sex-crazed slinking in this detail from the May, 1963, cover of the student humor magazine "Gargoyle." Image courtesy U-M Bentley Historical Library.

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