Word: coit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANIEL COIT...
...Tragedy. Despite his obvious talents and his feeling for power, Baruch never sought public office. "I have always felt that I could contribute more as an independent private citizen than as a public officeholder," he explained. Others saw it differently, among them Biographer Margaret Coit, whom Baruch asked to write his story after he had read her Pulitzer Prizewinning study of John C. Calhoun. "Here, then, is the tragedy," she wrote. "Baruch, unwilling to face defeat-Baruch, who has always had to win-has taken refuge behind his legend...
...applied to study chemistry. The faculty let her in, but carefully kept her name (Ellen Swallow) off the rolls. She wound up on the faculty, and in 1883 the whole place went coed-turning out such alumnae as Battleship Designer Lydia G. Weld ('02) and City Planner Elisabeth Coit ('18). More than half of Tech's living alumnae work fulltime as artists, aerodynamicists, doctors, ministers, missile developers and math professors. Still, the total number is small-only 572 women hold M.I.T. degrees...