Question: Which university was established first, Vanderbilt University or Bowdoin College?
Context: The 2011 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  The Commodores played their seven home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The team's head coach was James Franklin, who was in his first year at Vanderbilt.  Hired at Vanderbilt on December 17, 2010, he was previously the offensive coordinator and "head coach in waiting" at the University of Maryland.  Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in the conference's Eastern Division since its formation for the 1992 season.  Vanderbilt completed the 2011 regular season with an overall record of 6–6 and a mark of 2–6 in conference play, finishing in a tie with Kentucky for fourth place in the SEC East.  They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they were defeated by Cincinnati 24–31 to finish the season 6–7.  2011.  The seniors of the 2011 Vanderbilt football team became the first class in program history to qualify for two bowl game's while at the school.  Vanderbilt had only been to bowls in 1955 VS Auburn, 1974 VS Texas Tech, 1982 VS Air Force, and 2008 VS Boston College. Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (1823-1908) was an American author, patron and reformer from Portland, Maine.  Sweat received her education in Portland public schools and the Roxbury Latin School.  Margaret Mussey married Lorenzo De Medici Sweat at age 26 in 1849 and began keeping a journal.  Her husband was a lawyer; he graduated from Bowdoin College and served in the United States Senate and Maine House of Representatives.  Their home, known as the Sweat Mansion, is now part of the Portland Museum of Art.  The Sweats traveled all over the world.  She was fluent in French, German, Italian, and Russian.  Margaret Sweat was an avid philanthropist; she bequeathed their home and an additional 100,000 dollars to the Portland Society of Art to construct a building adjacent to her home for the museum.  Many of her donations were to Bowdoin College, where both her husband and her father, John Mussey, graduated.  A noted poet, journalist, and author, Sweat wrote the first American lesbian novel, "Ethel's Love Life." John Cullom "Red" Floyd (July 14, 1891 – July 20, 1965) was an American football and basketball player and coach.  He played football at Vanderbilt University with such greats as Irby "Rabbit" Curry and Josh Cody, captaining the 1920 Vanderbilt Commodores football team.  He served as the head football coach at Middle Tennessee State University (1917, 1935–1938), Auburn University (1929), and The Citadel in South Carolina (1930–1931), compiling a career college football record of 39–21–4.  Floyd was also the head basketball coach at Vanderbilt University from 1927 to 1929 and at Middle Tennessee from 1935 to 1939, tallying a career college basketball mark of 22–53. The 2012 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  (variously "VU" "Vandy" Vanderbilt "Dores") The Commodores played their six home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The team's head coach was James Franklin, who is in his second year at Vanderbilt.  Vanderbilt has been a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) since the league's inception in 1932, and has participated in the conference's Eastern Division since its formation for the 1992 season.  On November 11, 2012 Vandy became bowl eligible in back to back years for the first time in its 123-year football history.  This was the first time since 1935 that Vandy won five SEC games in a year and the first time in 30 years that they won at home against Tennessee.  Vanderbilt finished the year with the longest current SEC winning streak.  For the first time since 1948, Vanderbilt finished the season with a top 25 ranking. Alpheus Spring Packard (December 23, 1798 – July 13, 1884) was an American academic who may have been the longest serving faculty member to any American college through his 65 years at Bowdoin College, "in this particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick, Maine."  Trained as a minister, educator, librarian, acting President of Bowdoin College for the year 1883–84 until his death (between the Chamberlain and Hyde administration).  He was the father of four sons and one daughter by his first wife: Alpheus Spring Packard Jr. (1839–1905), Bowdoin class of 1861, Civil War surgeon, entomologist who corresponded with Darwin, and a Professor at Brown University with 25 publications, William Alfred Packard (1830-1909), Bowdoin class of 1851, Charles A. Packard, Bowdoin class of 1848, George Packard, as well as Frances Appleton. Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee.  Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South.  Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.  At the time Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  It offers 33 majors and four additional minors, and offers joint engineering programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Caltech. The Bowdoin Orient is the student newspaper of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, USA.  Established in 1871, the "Orient" is the oldest continuously-published college weekly in the United States.  It was named the second best tabloid-sized college weekly at a Associated Collegiate Press conference in March 2007.  In its 2014 college rankings, The Princeton Review named it the 15th best college newspaper; Bowdoin is the smallest school and only liberal arts school to make the list. The 2013 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represents Vanderbilt University during the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season.  The Commodores play their seven home games at Vanderbilt Stadium at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee, which has been Vanderbilt football's home stadium since 1922.  The 2013 team is coming off back-to-back bowls for the first time in school history.  The 2012 season was the best win pct since 1955 (.692) the nine wins was the most since 1915, and the 5 SEC wins was the most since 1935.  The 2012 season ended with the current longest win streak in the SEC, needless to say this was one of the best seasons in Vanderbilt football history.  The 2013 team was headed by James Franklin who was in his 3rd and final year at Vanderbilt.  It marked the Commodores 123rd overall season, 80th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and its 22nd within the SEC Eastern Division.  For the third straight year Vanderbilt had made it to a bowl game the game was the first played after December 31 of the same year of the season.  Vandy defeated Houston Cougars in the BBVA Compass Bowl 41–24.  Vanderbilt finished with 9 wins back to back for the first time in school history, also for the first time was ranked in the top 25 of AP and Coaches polls in back-to-back years. Vanderbilt University Law School (also known as Vanderbilt Law School or VLS) is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University.  Established in 1874, it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States.  Vanderbilt Law has consistently ranked among the top 20 law schools in the nation, and is currently ranked 17th in the 2018 edition of "U.S. News & World Report".  Vanderbilt Law School enrolls approximately 640 students, with each entering Juris Doctor class consisting of approximately 175 students.
Answer: Bowdoin College