Question: Baird Tipson was provost at the liberal arts college founded in what year?
Context: Macalester College ( ) is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US.  It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college.  Its first class entered September 15, 1885.  Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,978 students in the fall of 2013 from 50 U.S. states and 90 countries.  In 2015, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked Macalester as tied for the 23rd best liberal arts college in the United States, 6th for undergraduate teaching at a national liberal arts college, and 19th for best value at a national liberal arts college. A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.  A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum.  Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts.  Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model. Gustavus Adolphus College ( ) is a private, coeducational liberal arts college.  A four-year, residential institution, Gustavus Adolphus College was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  To this day the school retains Swedish and Lutheran heritage.  The premier event on campus is the annual Nobel Conference, which features Nobel Laureates and other scholars explaining their expertise to a general audience.  In 2015, "U.S. News & World Report" ranked Gustavus as the 64th best liberal arts college in the United States.  The college is ranked No. 38 for liberal arts colleges on Payscale's 2016-17 list of highest-paid graduates. Milligan College is a selective Christian liberal arts college founded in 1866 and located in the mountains of Upper East Tennessee and the Tri-Cities region of the state.  The school has a student population of more than 1,200 students, most of whom reside and study on its 195 acre campus which is located just a few miles from downtown Johnson City.  It is consistently ranked as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country and well known for its core humanities program.  Milligan was named a "College of Distinction" in 2011.  In 2016, the college was named the number two institution of higher education in the state of Tennessee, second only to Vanderbilt University and was ranked one of the best colleges in the nation by the 2017 edition of "The Princeton Review" Hampden–Sydney College, also known as H–SC, is a liberal arts college for men located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, United States.  Founded in 1775, Hampden–Sydney is the oldest private charter college in the Southern U.S., the 10th oldest college in the U.S., the last college founded before the American Revolution, and one of only three four-year, all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.  Hampden–Sydney College is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register. Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges or universities with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts.  The "Encyclopædia Britannica Concise" offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum."  Although the genesis for what is known today as the liberal arts college began in Europe, the term is commonly associated with the United States.  Liberal arts colleges are found in countries all over the world as well.  See the list (link) of international members of the Association of American Colleges and Universities for other institutions offering liberal arts education programs. The University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) is a public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges located in Morris, Minnesota.  As part of the University of Minnesota system, it was founded in 1960 as a public, co-educational, residential liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts degrees. Gettysburg College is a private, four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield.  The 225 acre campus is located at 300 North Washington Street in the Northwest corner of the town. The Colorado College (CC) is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains.  It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell in his daughter's memory.  The college enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduates at its 90 acre campus, 70 mi south of Denver.  The college offers 42 majors and 33 minors, and has a student-faculty ratio of 10:1.  Famous alumni include James Heckman, Ken Salazar, Lynne Cheney, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Marc Webb, and Steve Sabol.  Colorado College had an acceptance rate of 15% for the Class of 2021, was ranked as the best private college in Colorado by Forbes, and was listed as tied for the 23rd-best National Liberal Arts College, and as the No. 1 Most Innovative Liberal Arts School, in the 2018 "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. L. Baird Tipson is an American academic and college administrator.  He graduted from The Hill School in 1961.  He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton (1965) and a Ph.D in religious studies from Yale University (1972).  After an initial career as a professor of religion at Virginia and Central Michigan University, Tipson entered academic administration.  He served as Provost at Gettysburg College (1987-1995) followed by presidencies at Wittenberg University (1995-2004) and Washington College (2004-2010).  He retired to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 2010 and resumed teaching and scholarly research as an adjunct professor at Gettysburg College.  His extensive study of early Protestantism in Connecticut, "Hartford Puritanism - Thomas Hooker, Samuel Stone, and Their Terrifying God", was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.
Answer: 1832