TIL MIT admitted its first female student in the 1870s as an experiment and allowed her to attend free of charge. Faculty members were against it, but were forced to comply because they forgot to add a "no women" clause to the bylaws.

https://soundcloud.com/mitalumni/mits-first-alumna-a-new-biography



Submitted April 13, 2015 at 08:26PM by NLM12 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32g473/til_mit_admitted_its_first_female_student_in_the/