MIT's entire reputation was _made_ by the military. It was a no name school before the contracts of WWII/The Cold War, e.g. the prominent radar lab https://en.m

MIT's entire reputation was _made_ by the military. It was a no name school before the contracts of WWII/The Cold War, e.g. the prominent radar lab https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory