Question: Which college was founded first, Johns Hopkins University or Middlebury College?

 The college was founded in 1800 by Congregationalists making it the first operating college or university in Vermont. Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States.  The college currently enrolls 2,526 undergraduates from all 50 states and 74 countries.  Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. <SEP>  Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. The Johns Hopkins University (commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins) is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.  His $7 million bequest—of which half financed the establishment of Johns Hopkins Hospital—was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at that time.  Daniel Coit Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching and research.  Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States. <SEP> Barton Childs (February 29, 1916 – February 18, 2010) was an American pediatrician and geneticist.  He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1938.  In 1942, he received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University.  Following military service in World War II, he returned to Johns Hopkins for a residency in pediatrics.  After a fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston, he returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1949, where he remained until his retirement in 1981.  He remained a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine until his death. <SEP> Sara Berry (born 1940) is a scholar of contemporary African political economies, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-founder of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins.  Berry received her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 1967 and has taught at Indiana University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, and Northwestern University.  Berry has published four books: "Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria" (1975, Oxford: Claredon) "Accumulation, Mobility and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community" (1985, University of California Press), "Boundries: Essays on Poverty, Power and the Past in Asante", 1896-1996 (2001, Heinemann), and "No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa" (1993, University of Wisconsin Press).  "No Condition is Permanent" won the 1985 Herskovits Prize for the year’s best book on Africa.  Berry has worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development.  The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Herskovits Book Awards Committee.  She has received fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Senior Scholars Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.  Berry has a B.A. in history from Radcliffe College in 1961 and an M.A. from University of Michigan in 1965.