Intended publication relative to choice of Professor of Divinity, 1805 Digital

This series contains a narrative account written by Pearson defending the orthodox position at Harvard University. Pearson's narrative was never published and is dated before the vote for the president of Harvard and the Hollis Professor of Divinity takes place on February 1, 1805. In this narrative, Pearson criticizes the "time, manner, and unfairness" of the attacks made on the Corporation's selection committee beginning in the Columbian Centinel in September 1804 and continuing for the rest of the year; states that the three previous Divinity Professors were Calvinists and that the Corporation had an obligation to continue to select professors who were attached to "sound and orthodox" principles; and defends the orthodox position by declaring that the "real state of the controversy" revolves around those "who reject the religion of Jesus Christ and who support rational as opposed to evangelical religion, which was contrary to the religious sentiments of the University, its Founders, and Thomas Hollis."