Question: Which was founded earlier, Amherst College or the University of Pittsburgh?
Context: James Lyman Merrick (11 December 1803 in Monson, Massachusetts – 18 June 1866 in Amherst, Massachusetts) was the first American missionary to Muslims in Persia, and in 1852 became Professor of Oriental Literature at Amherst College.  His career anticipates a melding of missionary and scholarly interest in Islam that would only come to fruition several decades later.  As a young man Merrick was caught up in the zeal for Christian missions that had swept through New England churches after the formation of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1810.  The earliest entries in Merrick's diaries, which date from 1830 shortly before he graduated Amherst College, show that he had come to Amherst already intent on serving as a missionary to Persia. The Massachusetts Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  It receives financial support from Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium which includes Amherst College and four other educational institutions in a short geographical radius. William Smith Clark (July 31, 1826 – March 9, 1886) was an American professor of chemistry, botany and zoology, a colonel during the American Civil War, and a leader in agricultural education.  Raised and schooled in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts.  He graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and obtained a doctorate in chemistry from Georgia Augusta University in Göttingen in 1852.  He then served as professor of chemistry at Amherst College from 1852 to 1867.  During the Civil War, he was granted leave from Amherst to serve with the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, eventually achieving the rank of colonel and the command of that unit. The African Studies Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering African studies.  The journal also publishes book reviews.  The journal was established in 1958 as the African Studies Bulletin, obtaining its current name in 1970.  The editors-in-chief are Ralph Faulkingham (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Elliot Fratkin (Smith College), Mitzi Goheen (Amherst College), and Sean Redding (Amherst College). The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, it was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy.  It developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819.  After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within the area, the school moved to its current location in the Oakland neighborhood of the city; it was renamed as the University of Pittsburgh in 1908.  For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution, until 1966 when it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.  Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.  The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Lord Jeffery Amherst.  Amherst was established as a men's college and became coeducational in 1975. The Little Red Schoolhouse, also known as Amherst Day School, is a historic schoolhouse on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.  Designed by the noted academic architect James Kellum Smith of the firm McKim, Mead and White, the building was completed in 1937.  The Georgian Revival-style schoolhouse is of brick, steel and concrete construction, and was built from the ground up to serve preschool children.  Features include built-in wood cubbies in the hallway for storing coats and belongings, toddler-sized bench seats around the periphery of the main meeting room, and windows placed at a low height so that children can look out.  Referring to the schoolhouse in a 1951 publication, former Amherst College President Stanley King wrote, "No building on the Amherst campus is better built." Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 – October 30, 1964) was an American statistician.  He was born in Reading, Massachusetts, to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow.  He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880, from Amherst College in 1884 with an A.B., and in 1888 received an A.M. degree from Amherst College.  He received an LL.B degree (1887) and a Ph.D. (1891) from Columbia University.  In 1906 he received an honorary LL.D.  degree from Amherst College. Angie Epifano, a former student at Amherst College, gained widespread media attention and millions of page views after she wrote an essay on her personal experience of sexual assault that was published in the Amherst student newspaper, "The Amherst Student".  After the publication of her essay, Amherst College began investigating its sexual assault procedures, and women from other college campuses in the United States came forward to file federal complaints under Title IX and to form groups to reduce sexual assault on college campuses. The Amherst College Glee Club, founded in 1865, is a 40-voice all-male vocal ensemble, and one of the oldest continuous student organization at Amherst College.  It is part of the Amherst College Choral Society, along with the Women's Chorus, the Concert Choir, and the Madrigal Singers.  The club has a history of extensive international touring, having to date performed in over 55 countries.  It is currently directed by Amherst College Senior Lecturer in Music Mallorie Chernin.
Answer: University of Pittsburgh