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ijistflrg of % GInUrjg? ' jjfT is very difficult fo r the average American to think of anything Jj belonging to his country as old. This is due to comparison with what the old world looks upon as ancient. The country itself being looked upon as new all of her institutions are viewed in this light by those who have been born in lands where institutions were hoary with age before this great country was dis¬ covered. While America and her institution now stand in the fore¬ front, this is due to her ability to appropriate all the best in the old civilizations. There is still, however, something of trustfulness engendered by that which has stood the test of time. It is not generally known by the pupils now attending the Presbyterian Col¬ lege for Women that this is a very old institution as compared with most colleges in America, hence I propose to give a brief account of its origin and formation. When it was proposed by the British Crown to found The Queen’s College and locate it in the colony of North Carolina, in St. Martin’s Parish, in the town of Charlotte, objection was made on the ground that the people of this section had manifested a spirit of hostility to the interest of the Crown and of the established Church, and instead of a college being founded, which in all likeli¬ hood would have expanded into The University after the model of the old world, the Queen’s Museum was founded instead and located on what has, for many years been known as “The Brevard Davidson Place,” now the site of the new Mecklenburg County Courthouse. These movements were all prior to the Revolution. After the Independence of America had been declared what¬ ever effort was made by way of meeting the wants of the com¬ munity, proposed in the Queen’s College, formed the beginning of the history of the college of today. It is probably true that the life of this institution extends back considerably over a hundred years, and if so, then it will be reckoned among the very oldest educational institutions in America. In 1821 the Charlotte Male and Female Academy is spoken of as an institution already in existence, and in need of a new building. 15
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The subscription for the proposed building reads as follows: “We, the subscribers, promise to pay the sum severally annexed to our names, for the purpose of erecting a Male and Female Academy in the town of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County; which sums we promise to pay to the trustees in the following installments, viz: One-fourth on the 1st of December next, and the balance in two annual payments, that is to say, one-half in December, 1823 and the other half December, 1824. Witness our hands this 28th day of February, 1821. N. B. It is agreed by the trustees that those who pay their subscriptions in advance shall have a discount of 10 per cent.” If there were any doubt as to what race of people dwelt in Charlotte town at the time the above document was subscribed to, all doubt would be removed by a close scrutiny of the N. B. The Scotch-Irish cannot resist the temptation to make 10 per cent. They will even give away their money for the opportunity so to do. While they are strict believers in the teachings of Moses, and are strict observers of the law of the Sabbath, they continue to violate the law in the matter of interest. The Academy was first located on what is now known as Mr. James H. Carson’s resident lot, on South Tryon street. Subse¬ quently the Male Academy was moved to the lot upon which now stands the residence of Mr. John B. Ross, on th e corner of North College and Eighth streets, and the Female Academy to the present site of the College for Women. The fathers, somehow, imagined that proximity of the Male and Female Academy was too great, and so the property now owned by J. B. Ross was traded to Mr. Rudisill for a lot on North Davidson and Ninth streets, and the Male School was conducted there until a comparatively recent date. The trees now standing on the Davidson street lot, may be observed leaning in all directions, there being none perfectly straight among them. This phenomenon is due to the inclination of boys to pull small trees to a position where they may be mounted and ridden as horses, and possibly this boisterousness may have determined the fathers on removing the Academy, that the bad example of the boys might not influence the girls, and as the trees of the College Campus retained their perpendi cular, they possibly thus saved the trees. l 6
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