Word: coit
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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...