Question: Which college was founded first, Williams College or University of Southern California?

<P0-S0> Paul M. Birdsall (???? <P0-S1> -May 2, 1970) was a historian and diplomat. <P0-S2>  Educated at St. Paul's School, he earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1928, where he studied under the influence of Charles Howard McIlwain. <P0-S3>  He taught European history at Williams College as assistant and then associate professor. <P0-S4>  In 1936 he became Dean of Students at Williams College. <P0-S5>  He was also a trustee of Vassar College. <P0-S6>  He then entered a career in government service. <P0-S7>  During World War Two, he served in the Office of Strategic Services. <P0-S8>  In 1947, he was assistant military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. <P0-S9>  In 1948-1949 he worked for the Brookings Institution. <P0-S10>  He later served as a reserve foreign service officer in Paris and at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. <P0-S11>  According to obituaries, however, he actually worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1949 to 1962. <P0-S12>  Birdsall died at the age of seventy in Christiansted, United States Virgin Islands, where he had been in retirement for eight years. <SEP> <P1-S0>  It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755. <P1-S1>  The college was ranked first in 2017 in the "U.S. News & World Report"' s liberal arts ranking for the 15th consecutive year, and third among liberal art colleges in the 2017 "Forbes" magazine ranking of America's Top Colleges. <P1-S2> Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. <SEP> <P2-S0> The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university located in Los Angeles, California. <P2-S1>  USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals. <P2-S2>  In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. <P2-S3>  Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California. <P2-S4>  An engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California. <SEP> <P3-S0> Zephaniah Swift Moore (November 20, 1770 – June 29, 1823) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. <P3-S1>  He taught at Dartmouth College during the early 1810s and had a house built in Hanover, New Hampshire that now serves as Dartmouth's Blunt Alumni Center. <P3-S2>  He served as the President of Williams College between 1815 and 1821 and the first President of Amherst College between 1821 and 1823. <P3-S3>  He is most famous for abandoning Williams in order to found Amherst, taking some of the faculty and 15 students with him. <P3-S4>  Supposedly, he also took portions of the Williams College library with him. <P3-S5>  Though plausible, this account is unsubstantiated, and was declared false in 1995 by Williams College President Harry C. Payne. <P3-S6>  Moore died two years after Amherst was founded, and was succeeded by Heman Humphrey, a trustee of Williams College. <P3-S7>  His departure from Williams established the foundation for the intense Williams-Amherst rivalry that persists to the present. <P3-S8>  To this day, he is regarded with a measure of derision on the Williams campus.