Are both Lafayette College and Southern Methodist University a private institute?
Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college based in Easton, Pennsylvania, with a campus in New York City, NY. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown, and the citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the school after General Lafayette, who famously toured the country in 1824–25, as "a testimony of respect for [his] talents, virtues, and signal services... in the great cause of freedom".
Silliman Institute Silliman Institute is a private coeducational school located in Clinton, Louisiana. It was founded in 1852, and reopened in 1966 by parents who opposed government intervention in education, especially desegregation of Louisiana's segregated school system. Today, the vast majority of students are still racially white, but the student body is also made up of a minority of other ethnic backgrounds. The school enrolls students from throughout East and West Feliciana Parish, and surrounding areas.