Chicora College for Women - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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The exact date cannot be found, but, sometime prior to 1840, the Academy was divided: the Female Academy was transferred to College and Ninth streets and the Male Academy to North Davidson and Ninth streets. It was to continue and improve the Female Academy that a stock company in 1855-56 employed a Mr. Williams to erect the “Italian Villa’1 building which Dr. and Mrs. Burwell were invited to preside over in 1857. From 1857 to 1912, under the titles of The Charlotte Female Institute’’ and “The Presbyterian College for Women,’’ the College— without any library or laboratories—may be regarded as an expression of the personalities of such distinguished teachers as Dr. and Mrs., Burwell, Miss Lily Webb Long, Dr. Wm. R. Atkinson, and President James R. Bridges. Then, in 1912, the College was moved to Myers Park and given the restored name—Queens, from the title of the Colonial school, Queens Museum. Capt. William Anderson and Dr. W. H. Frazer placed the College on a sound financial basis, expanded its physical equipment in terms of buildings, library, laboratories, and established its State and regional accreditation—all in the relatively short period of twenty-six years. Notable women who contributed to the curriculum and the organizational development of Queens College during this period were Dean Sallie McLean and Dean of Instruction Elizabeth H. Blair.

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Queens College commemorates the name and ideals of Queens Museum, a classical school established in Charlotte in 1766 and so- called in honor of Queen Charlotte of England. Disallowed a charter by the Crown, its trustees and their descendants answered sometime later by making it a matter of record that there be incorporated in the Constitution of the United States the existing “Education Clause”. Serving as a hospital during the Revolutionary war and re-christened Liberty Hall after the American colonies were free, the school at the Brevard Davidson place (Third street and South Tryon—southward from Independence Square, “on the left”) was closed about 1790. Some thirty years later—1821, to be exact—in this same locality, on the James H. Carson lot at 913 South Tryon, we find the Charlotte Male and Female Academy, which we may regard as a sort of continuation of Queens Museum. This school was at that time in need of a new building. A quoted subscription form, allowing 10% discount for pre- paid pledges, appears in the 1903 “Edelweiss” (College Annual).

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Born in a hotbed of Whig democracy, Queens College has pre- served through the years the democratic tradition on which it was founded. Today this tradition is the strengthening fibre in all phases of the college life—student government, religious interests, social activities, student-faculty relationships, and intellectual opportunities. The government of the students, by the students, and for the students is representative of the democratic heritage of the Ameri- can people and their way of life. Each student has a voice in the activities of the student government organization through leaders she has elected. Moreover, each student has the power to express her opinion on all issues which are pertinent to the government of life in the college community, and to decide these issues by exercising her right of free ballot. The religious activities on the campus are voluntary. The freedom of religious preference, in keeping with the principles of a true democ- racy, is recognized, and is evinced in the frequent visits to the campus of selected representatives of different faiths. Membership in the various social organizations is an individual mat-