The school would also require students to perform manual labor for two to three hours a day.
[2] The commission hired Franceway R. Cossitt, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, as the college's president and sole teacher.
However, when the synod requested a charter for the college, members of the Kentucky legislature worried that the original name would stoke sectarian conflict.
The legislature therefore dropped "Presbyterian" from the name and issued a charter to Cumberland College on January 8, 1827.
[5] The synod hoped that manual labor would prevent students from sacrificing "bodily vigor" at the expense of "mental energy.
The commission met in July and decided to relocate the college to Lebanon, Tennessee, whose backers offered $10,000 in cash.
Neither the commission nor the General Assembly had the authority to dissolve Cumberland College or to relocate it outside Kentucky.
"[15] The college's cemetery can be found on a private, residential yard on Traylor Street near Calvary Baptist Church.