Question: which university was founded first Duke University or Tufts University?

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Frederick Melvin "Fish" Ellis (February 26, 1906 – July 19, 1967) was an American sportsman who has played football, basketball, baseball, and track.  He was also an athletics coach, administrator, and university professor.  He served as the head football coach at Tufts University from 1946 to 1953, compiling a record of 25–34–6.  Ellis was also the head basketball coach at Tufts from 1946 to 1953, tallying a mark of 74–75.  He is the namesake of Tufts University's home football field, Ellis Oval. Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.  Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a nonsectarian institution of higher learning.  Charles Tufts donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford, saying that he wanted to set a "light on the hill".  The name was changed to Tufts University in 1954, although the corporate name remains "the Trustees of Tufts College".  For more than a century, Tufts was a small New England liberal arts college until its transformation into a larger research university in the 1970s.  Tufts is a charter member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).  In 2017, the university accepted 14.8% of undergraduate applicants from a pool of 21,101.  In 2016, it was ranked 27th nationally and 156th internationally by "U.S. News & World Report". The history of Tufts University, originally Tufts College, can be traced back to 1847 when the Universalist Church set up convention for the creation of a university for the parish.  In 1852, the college was established when Boston businessman Charles Tufts donated 20 acres of land to the church to establish the college.  It is the second oldest college that was founded in the Boston area.  .  During the 19th century the college grew.  The official college seal, bearing the motto Pax et Lux (Peace and Light) was adopted in 1857.  The school colors of brown and blue were selected in 1876.  Tufts' mascot became Jumbo when P.T. Barnum gave a natural history museum to the university. The Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, is a web-based publication of educational material from a number of Tufts University courses, providing open sharing of free, searchable, high-quality course content to educators, students, and self-learners throughout the global community.  The Tufts OCW initiative encourages the publication and free exchange of course materials on the World Wide Web.  First launched in June 2005, Tufts OCW provides materials with strong representation from Tufts’ health sciences schools, some of which are equivalent to textbooks in depth.  All materials on the Tufts OCW site are accessible at any time, free of charge.  As Tufts OCW is not a distance learning program, no registration, applications, prerequisites, or fees are required and no credit is granted. The Tufts Observer, founded as the "Tufts Weekly", is an undergraduate student newsmagazine published at Tufts University.  First published in 1895 Tufts' first student newspaper, the Observer is the oldest student publication on campus.  The Tufts Weekly was renamed the Tufts Observer in 1969.  Observer staff currently work out of the Media Advocacy Board (MAB) Lab, located on the second floor of Curtis Hall on College Avenue. The Zamboni is a student-run humor publication at Tufts University.  It was founded in 1989 and comes out with six issues per year, or once per month.  It contains satirical articles (such as fake news briefs, interviews, and op-ed pieces), cartoons, and photos.  It is known as "Tufts University's Only Intentionally Funny Magazine" and its motto is "Cowering Behind the First Amendment Since 1989."  "The Zamboni" is fully funded by the Student Activities Fee as allocated by the Tufts Senate. The Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the eight schools that constitute Tufts University.  The "Times Higher Education (THE)" and the "Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)" consistently rank Tufts among the world's best medical research institutions for clinical medicine.  Located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, the medical school has clinical affiliations with thousands of doctors and researchers in the United States and around the world, as well as at its affiliated hospitals in both Massachusetts (including Tufts Medical Center, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and Baystate Medical Center), and Maine (Maine Medical Center).  According to Thomson Reuters' "Science Watch", Tufts University School of Medicine's research impact rates sixth among U.S medical schools for its overall medical research and within the top 5 for specialized research areas such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, urology, cholera, public health & health care science, and pediatrics.  In addition, Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 44th in research and 38th in primary care according to "U.S. News & World Report". Pedram Hamrah is an ophthalmologist and immunologist.  He obtained his M.D. from the University of Cologne, Germany.  In 2002, together with Reza Dana and Ying Liu, he was the first to discover the presence of and characterize resident antigen-presenting cells in the central cornea.  Hamrah is currently Director of the Center for Translational Ocular Immunology and Director of Anterior Segment Imaging of the Boston Image Reading Center at the New England Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine.  In addition he is on the faculty of the Programs of Immunology and Neuroscience at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University.  He was a faculty member in the laboratory of Ulrich von Andrian at Harvard's Immune Disease Institute from 2008 to 2012. Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina.  Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.  In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM) is a private, American dental school located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and is connected to Tufts Medical Center.  It is one of the 8 graduate schools that comprise Tufts University.  Founded in 1868 as Boston Dental College by Dr. Isaac J. Wetherbee, the university is the second oldest dental school in the city, and one of the oldest in the country.  As of 2013, Tufts is the second largest dental school in the United States, with a class size of approximately 190 students per class.

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Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina.  Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.  Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a nonsectarian institution of higher learning.