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Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as Rhode Island College, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and the seventh-oldest in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered in the American Colonies before the American Revolution and reviewed in the 1907 edition of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. Brown merged with nearby Pembroke College, its sister school, in 1971.