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In response to "Ten in 10 Category 5: Colleges and Universities." by Gene Raybaron

Pencils down! Oldest institutions inside.

1. Harvard (Cambridge, MA, 1636)
2. William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA, 1693)
3. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD, 1696)
4. Yale (New Haven, CT, 1701)
5. Penn (Philadelphia, PA, 1740)
6. Moravian College (Bethlehem, PA, 1742)
7. Delaware (Newark, DE, 1743)
8. Princeton (Princeton, NJ, 1746)
9. Washington and Lee (Lexington, VA, 1749)
10. Columbia (New York, NY, 1754)
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Brown (Providence, RI, 1764)
Rutgers (New Brunswick, NJ, 1766)
Dartmouth (Hanover, NH, 1769)
College of Charleston (Charleston, SC, 1770)
Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC, 1772)
Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA, 1773)
Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden Sydney, VA, 1775)
Transylvania University (Lexington, KY, 1780)
Washington & Jefferson (Washington, PA, 1781)
Washington College (Chestertown, MD, 1782)
Georgia (Athens, GA, 1785)
Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, 1787)
Franklin & Marshall (Lancaster, PA, 1787)
Georgetown (Washington, DC, 1789)
North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, 1789)


"This building's a hundred years older than the country it's in, so do be careful."
"We're sitting in chairs."


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