Question: Which college is older, Bowdoin College or Swarthmore College?

Context articles: Bowdoin Project
Bowdoin College
Swarthmore station
Swarthmore College
Jacqueline Carey (novelist born 1954)
Bowdoin College Men's Rugby
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
William Smyth (professor)
WBOR
Alpheus Spring Packard Sr.

The Bowdoin Project (officially entitled What does Bowdoin Teach?
 How a Contemporary Liberal Arts College Shapes Students) was an educational publication critiquing the educational practices of Brunswick-based liberal arts college Bowdoin College.
 The publication, rebased in April 2013, garnered widespread media coverage for its critique of the college and more generally the liberal arts curriculum and overall practices.
 The report called for educational reform, and provided critique of Bowdoin's academic, social, and educational practices.
 The report was later dubbed "The Bowdoin Project" due to widespread media coverage, and has produced extended analysis of the school's academic and social program.
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.
Swarthmore station is a SEPTA Regional Rail in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
 Located on Chester Road between downtown Swarthmore and Swarthmore College, it serves the Media/Elwyn Line.
Swarthmore College ( locally, or ) is a private liberal arts college located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia.
 Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.
 It was established to be a college "...under the care of Friends, at which an education may be obtained equal to that of the best institutions of learning in our country."
 By 1906, Swarthmore dropped its religious affiliation, becoming officially non-sectarian.
Jacqueline Carey (born 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and short story writer.
 Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977.
 She lived in New York City for many years but published her first story in "The New Yorker" in 1986 after a move to Montana.
 In 2000, she wrote a mystery column for Salon.com.
 She now lives in Swarthmore College, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.
Bowdoin College Men's Rugby is the men's rugby club of Bowdoin College - founded in 1969 with a combination of students from Bowdoin and men from Portland, ME.
Swarthmore (pronounced locally, or ) is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
 Swarthmore was originally named "Westdale" in honor of noted painter Benjamin West, who was one of the early residents of the town.
 The name was changed to "Swarthmore" after the establishment of Swarthmore College.
 "Swarthmore" can be pronounced with the first "r" either vocalized or dropped due to differences in rhotic and non-rhotic accents, but locally it is usually pronounced without the first "r" (i.e. "SWAHTH-mor").
 The borough population was 6,194 as of the 2010 census.
William Smyth (1797 – April 3, 1868) was an American academic and writer on mathematics and other subjects.
 He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, then studied theology at Phillips Academy Andover.
 In 1825, he became a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and in 1846 became an associate professor of natural philosophy.
 The Bowdoin College Department of Mathematics Smyth Prize is named in his honor.
WBOR (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.
 The station broadcasts from the basement of the Dudley Coe Building on the Bowdoin College campus.
 Programming includes indie rock, classical, electronic music, blues, jazz, metal, talk, news, sports, political, along with a large variety of other shows.
 In the past, WBOR has also published a music, arts, and literature magazine called the "WBOR Zine."
 Although WBOR can not air ads as it is a non-commercial educational license on a designated non-commercial frequency, public service announcements are read every hour.
 Show hosts are predominantly Bowdoin College students, however many Bowdoin faculty members, as well as community members host weekly shows.
 WBOR can be heard throughout the Midcoast area and sometimes as far away as Portland.
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.