Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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JOHN D. KIRKPATRICR, D.D.

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Cumberland University. HE year is 1826, and the first session of Cumberland College, at Princeton, Kentucky, has just begun. The new Cumberland Presbyterian denomination, sixteen years old, has founded the new college. Its campus is a five-hundred acre farm ; its dormi- tories, single rooms, most of them built of logs ; its recitation hall, a big two-story log house, with wide, old-fashioned fire places, and a roof of clap- boards. Even- student must work two hours a day on the farm, under the direction of a superintendent; each one of the few professors wears the scholastic cap and gown of Oxford ; and the institution is in debt for the purchase price of all its property, for it has been founded upon the faith of sundry promises, and the Trustees have borrowed the money to make the first payment for land and buildings, and given a mortgage for the rest. These three things, each in its way, determine the fate of the school. The General Assemblv gets wind of the fact that the Faculty of the new College go gowned in silk, and directs the Trustees to adopt some means of securing economy among the students ; so the Trustees resolve as follows, in the spring of 1832: ' ■ ' ■Resolved, That in future the students and faculty of said College be, and they are hereby advised to wear as their weekly apparel during winter, good strong woolen jeans, or cassinette ; and for summer, flax linen, or hemp linen, or some other article of domestic manufacture, so as to secure the object con- templated by the General Assembly ; also that each student be requested to furnish himself with a large and strong linen apron, which may be used when at work, so as to protect his other clothes. Thus, the gown is abolished, and the College sentiment becomes that of economy, if it was not that already. But the requirement of two daily hours of labor remains, and to many of the students it is not pleasing ; so it is a cause of continued trouble. The Trustees could remove the cap and gown from the professorial head and back by the mere passing of a resolution ; to remove the debt from the College was not so easy. The history of their financial troubles need not be told here, but the result was that in 1842 the General Assembly resolved to remove the church ' s College from Princeton, and invited subscriptions from towns desiring the institution. Lebanon ' s bid was largest, and on the location of the College there, every dollar of that bid was promptlv paid, says history. 15