Question: Which University was founded earlier, Pennsylvania State University or Queen's University?

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The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.  Founded in 1855, the university has a stated threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service.  Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident instruction and online delivery.  Its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township.  It has two law schools, Penn State Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle, 90 miles south of State College.  The College of Medicine is located in Hershey.  Penn State has another 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses located across the state.  Penn State has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. Thomas Novak, PhD, PE (born September 27, 1952 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania) is the Alliance Coal Academic Chair of Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky, appointed in 2010.  Previously, he held appointments at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Virginia Tech, the University of Alabama and Pennsylvania State University.  He received his PhD in mining engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1984.  His research focuses on techniques to assess and improve mine safety and ventilation.  His most recognized contributions to the field have been in understanding how electrical hazards such as lightning can trigger explosions in underground mines.  This work has helped to explain a number of mine-related catastrophes in the last 30 years and has served to significantly improve mine safety. University Park is the name given to the Pennsylvania State University's flagship campus, and University Park, Pennsylvania is the postal address used by Penn State.  The University Park campus is located in State College and adjacent College Township, Pennsylvania.  The campus post office was designated "University Park, Pennsylvania" in 1953 by Penn State president Milton Eisenhower, after what was then Pennsylvania State College was upgraded to university status. Ping Li () is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.  He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on bilingual language processing in East Asian languages and connectionist modeling.  Li received a B.A. in Chinese linguistics from Peking University in 1983, an M.A. in theoretical linguistics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics from Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1990, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego and the McDonnell-Pew Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in 1992.  Li has been employed at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992–1996), the University of Richmond (1996–2006), and Pennsylvania State University (2008–present), and he has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Hong Kong University (2002–2003), an Adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University (2000–present), as well as Program Director for the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program and the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation (2007–2009). Benjamin T. Hudson is an American medievalist based at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.  He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Pennsylvania State University, received his Masters at University College, Dublin, and his D.Phil.  at Worcester College, Oxford.  He specializes in the history of Celtic-speaking peoples in the British Isles in the Early and High Middle Ages, and in the Norse-Gaelic Irish Sea region of the same period. The Sam and Irene Black School of Business is the business school of Pennsylvania State University – Erie, The Behrend College, in Erie, Pennsylvania.  Penn State Behrend is a part of the Pennsylvania State University commonwealth system.  It was founded in 1998 when The Black family donated a gift of $20 million to the college.  The school of business is located in the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center on the campus of Penn State Behrend. The Pennsylvania State University was founded on February §≈ 22, 1855 by act P.L.46, No.50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.  Centre County became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte donated 200 acres (809,000 m²) of land and sold the trustees 200 acres more.  In 1861, Penn State graduated its first class, marking the first graduates of a baccalaureate program at an American agricultural college.  On May 1, 1862, the school's name was changed to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, and with the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, Pennsylvania selected the school in 1863 to be the state's sole land grant college.  In the following years, enrollment fell as the school tried to balance purely agricultural studies with a more classic education, falling to 64 undergraduates in 1875, a year after the school's name changed once again to the Pennsylvania State College. Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Founded on 16 October 1841 via a royal charter issued by Queen Victoria, the university predates Canada's founding by 26 years.  Queen's holds more than 1400 ha of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England.  Queen's is organized into ten undergraduate, graduate and professional faculties and schools. The Pennsylvania State University Glee Club is an all-male choral ensemble at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State).  Founded in 1888, the Penn State Glee club is the oldest organization at Penn State consisting of 60-80 undergraduate and graduate men from all colleges of the University.  The Glee Club performs several concerts each year and goes on a tour during spring break.  The Glee Club performs a variety of music from Broadway to Classical music, and has its place in Penn State tradition by singing University fight songs and performing at numerous events.  Dr. Christopher Kiver is the current director of the Penn State Glee Club. Penn State University Press, also called The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals.  It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.  The Penn State University Press primarily publishes scholarship but, as a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in producing books about Pennsylvania and the Penn State University.  The areas of scholarship the Press is most known for are philosophy, art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, political science, religious studies, and early American history.  The Penn State Press employs approximately 24 people, and produces about 70 books a year and over 50 journals.  The Press also has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career.

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 Founded in 1855, the university has a stated threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service. Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Founded on 16 October 1841 via a royal charter issued by Queen Victoria, the university predates Canada's founding by 26 years.