Queens University of Charlotte - Coronet / Edelweiss Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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the building, standing where M ecklenburg court house now stands, was used as a hospital by the American and British armies. The Presbyterians had transferred the college to Winnsboro, South Carolina, and brought it back to Charlotte again, before the Rev. Robert Burwell and Margaret Anna Burwell came in 1857 from Hillsboro, North Carolina, and took charge of the college and called it The Charlotte Female Institute. After the Civil War the school was under the management of the Rev. Robert Burwell and his son. Captain John B. Burwell. For some thirty years after this time, under the presidency of Dr. Atkin- son mainly, the Institute continued its existence in a building on what is known as College Street. In 1901 this building was replaced by a larger one whose cornerstone bore the title Presbyterian College for Women. At this time the school went under ecclesiastical control and for eleven years or more following Dr. J. R. Bridges was the beloved president of this college. With him was associated in administration Miss Lily W. Long, often referred to now as the perfect Dean. In 1912, after Dr. J. L. Caldwell was chosen by the Board of Trustees to be president of the college, the Board of Trustees determined that it was necessary for the location to be changed to Myers Park, if the college was to expand. Further, it was decided to give the Myers Park college the name it first bore : Queens College. The spirit of the new Queens College and the associate organization is not nobler than that of the past. The aim of the modern progressive Queens College is much the same as that of the first Queens College ; it is aptly expressed in the words which the present institution has made her own : Christian Women for Christian Homes. 14