Question: Which was founded first, Middlebury College or Harvard University? 
Context: Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636, whose history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities. Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States.  The college was founded in 1800 by Congregationalists making it the first operating college or university in Vermont.  The college currently enrolls 2,526 undergraduates from all 50 states and 74 countries.  Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Jeremiah Atwater (December 27, 1773 – July 29, 1858) was notable as an educator, minister, and college president.  Atwater became principal of the Addison County Grammar School in 1799 and, a year later, when the school became Middlebury College, assumed the role of its first president.  In 1809, Atwater left Middlebury to become the third president of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.  He remained in that position until 1815, when he returned to New Haven, Connecticut, his birthplace and home of his alma mater, Yale University.  Atwater Commons, one of five residential commons at Middlebury, is named for him.  Dickinson College also has an Atwater Hall named for him.  Atwater was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815. Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an American poet and author of the collection "Zero at the Bone".  Born in Hartford, Connecticut of Italian heritage, she is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA, 1997), University of Washington (MA, 2000), and UCLA (PhD, 2014).  Cassarino has taught in the English departments at Middlebury College in Vermont, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and UCLA.  She has also worked as a private chef, and cooked at Babbo in New York City.  She is a Copy Editor at ELLE.com. The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) in Oxford, England, is a programme for international students (mainly American) to study in Oxford, and also encourages research in the humanities and fields of medieval and renaissance studies.  It was founded by Dr. John and Dr. Sandra J.K.M Feneley in 1975.  In 2014, CMRS became part of the global network of Middlebury College C.V. Starr Schools Abroad and is now known as the Middlebury College-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program (M-CMRS).  The CMRS has long been affiliated with Keble College, Oxford, and participants are associate members of the College with access to all its facilities.  Among the American colleges and universities that have sent students to CMRS are The University of Georgia, Elmhurst College, St. Mary's College of California, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Olaf College, William Jewell College, Middlebury College. The Middlebury College Snow Bowl is a ski area in Hancock, Vermont, 13 mi east of Middlebury in the Green Mountains.  The site has been owned and operated by Middlebury College since its first trails were cut in 1934.  The Snow Bowl has 17 trails and 3 lifts, offering access to more than 110 acre of terrain.  In 2006, it became the first carbon-neutral ski area in the United States. Ian Theodore Douglas (born May 20, 1958) is the bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.  He was ordained to the diaconate on June 11, 1988, and to the priesthood on June 24, 1989.  He was elected fifteenth, and current, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut on October 24, 2009.  His election marked the first time in the diocese’s 224-year history that a priest from outside the diocese has been elected bishop.  He was consecrated on April 17, 2010.  He was previously Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He also served as priest associate at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1989-2010.  Douglas earned degrees from Middlebury College (B.A.), Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.) , Harvard Divinity School (M.Div.)  and Boston University (Ph.D.).  Douglas is married to Kristin Harris.  They are the parents of Luke, Timothy, and Johanna. Paul Dwight Moody (April 11, 1879 – August 18, 1947), son of famed evangelical minister Dwight L. Moody, served as pastor at South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury, VT from 1912 to 1917 and as the 10th president of Middlebury College from 1921 until 1943.  During his tenure, two of Middlebury's most important institutions, the Bread Loaf School of English and the Middlebury College Language Schools saw growth in both quality and reputation.  One of Moody's chief goals was the creation of a wholly separate women's college at Middlebury, as opposed to the semi-integrated system that had prevailed since women were first accepted in 1883.  However, the Great Depression and World War II ultimately stymied his efforts at segregation by gender. The Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad, operated by Middlebury College in 17 countries across 5 continents, offer overseas academic programs for undergraduates from various U.S. institutions, as well as graduate-level programs for students from the Middlebury Language Schools and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.  The first School was the School in Paris, opened in 1949.  The Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools have been endowed by the C.V. Starr Foundation. The New England Review (NER) is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College.  Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as "New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly" from 1982 (when it moved to Middlebury College), until 1991 as a formal division of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.  In 1991, the magazine reverted to its original name, "New England Review", and opted to have only informal ties with the Writers' Conference.
Answer: Harvard University