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...matter of fact, I am one this very minute." Then while her jaws are still agape or she's saying: "Pooh! I don't believe it," you say, not too one-uppishly: "It's not hard really, not nearly as hard as math. Mother told me my great-grandmother way back in the Dark Ages wrote hundreds and hundreds of novels. She was called Elinor Glyn and Lord Curzon was madly in love with her and I thought...
...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...
...only truth in this picture is that Tech girls have brains. They consistently do as well as or better than the boys. All take the same standard freshman calculus and chemistry; most wind up majoring in math or science. As for looks, Tech now boasts striking equations-long legs, wind-blown hair, fresh faces-attached to creatures who turn out to be working on doctorates in fluid dynamics while researching hydrofoils for the Navy...
Cross-Fertilization. This month Burns opened another college that appears to be unique in the U.S.-one teaching everything in Spanish. The goal of Elbert Covell College is "education for life in the Americas in the 20th century." It will stress math, science, business and schoolteaching. Equally important, it will throw together 250 dissimilar students-two-thirds of them from Latin America, the rest Americans fluent in Spanish. Already on hand are 60 students from the U.S. and 14 Latin American countries. Faculty is still a problem. Covell has spent months trying to find a Spanish-speaking physicist, for example...
...only to take a peek at the textbooks being used in high school science and math courses these days, or to listen to a language class being taught, to realize the changes that NDEA has helped realize. But its most impressive accomplishments he in yet another area: since 1958 about 490,000 students in over 1,500 colleges have borrowed $330,000,000 under the loan program...