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The questions outlined in this series were used by Pearson to challenge the religious principles and qualifications of Henry Ware in his remarks to the Board of Overseers when he opposed the election of Ware to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity on February 14, 1805.

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The themes discussed in this Theses Theologica focus on theology, the nature of God, the Holy Scriptures, the nature of truth and morals, and the relationship of men to God. The thesis is written in Latin.

Scope and Contents: This reading list notes the required books, articles, and treatises on Biblical knowledge, the Scriptures, and natural and revealed religion for students in Henry Ware's divinity classes. The reading list notes the required treatises that discuss the doctrines and duties of revelation, ecclesiastical history, and pastoral...

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The author's name in this letter has been crossed out.

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming correspondence written to Eliphalet Pearson pertaining to the appointment of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity. The letters, written by ministers in New England, largely support Pearson's desire to elect an orthodox Calvinist as Hollis Professor. An unknown correspondent warns Pearson that the selection of a ...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming correspondence written to Eliphalet Pearson pertaining to the appointment of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity. The letters, written by ministers in New England, largely support Pearson's desire to elect an orthodox Calvinist as Hollis Professor. An unknown correspondent warns Pearson that the selection of a ...

Scope and Contents: This series consists of incoming correspondence written to Eliphalet Pearson pertaining to the appointment of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity. The letters, written by ministers in New England, largely support Pearson's desire to elect an orthodox Calvinist as Hollis Professor. An unknown correspondent warns Pearson that the selection of a ...

Scope and Contents: 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...

Scope and Contents: 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...

Scope and Contents: These nomination slips document the vote taken for Hollis Professor of Divinity by the Fellows of the Harvard Corporation on either December 15 or 26. The slips are not dated and it cannot be determined at which meeting they were used. This folder contains the nomination slips of Fellows Ebenezer Storer (1730-1807), Dr. John Lathrop (1740-1816), Judge Oliver Wendell...

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This folder contains the trial ballots of Fellows John Eliot, Judge John Davis, Judge Oliver Wendell, Eliphalet Pearson, and Dr. John Lathrop. According to Wright, five of the six trial ballots remaining reveal that the compromise failed by the narrowest margins.

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The ballots in this folder document the election of Fisher Ames as president of Harvard on December 11, 1805. Each of the ballots lists four names. The ballots are unidentifiable.

Scope and Contents: This series contains extracts taken from the Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1642, 1650, and 1657, pertaining to Harvard College, and extracts from 1721 to 1765 from Harvard Corporation records. They were probably used by Pearson in his research to challenge the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity and support Pearson's assertion (folder 14) that the...

Scope and Contents: This series contains extracts taken from the Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1642, 1650, and 1657, pertaining to Harvard College, and extracts from 1721 to 1765 from Harvard Corporation records. They were probably used by Pearson in his research to challenge the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity and support Pearson's assertion (folder 14) that the...

Scope and Contents: This series contains extracts taken from the Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1642, 1650, and 1657, pertaining to Harvard College, and extracts from 1721 to 1765 from Harvard Corporation records. They were probably used by Pearson in his research to challenge the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity and support Pearson's assertion (folder 14) that the...

Scope and Contents: This series contains extracts taken from the Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1642, 1650, and 1657, pertaining to Harvard College, and extracts from 1721 to 1765 from Harvard Corporation records. They were probably used by Pearson in his research to challenge the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity and support Pearson's assertion (folder 14) that the...

Scope and Contents: This series contains extracts taken from the Massachusetts General Court Acts of 1642, 1650, and 1657, pertaining to Harvard College, and extracts from 1721 to 1765 from Harvard Corporation records. They were probably used by Pearson in his research to challenge the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity and support Pearson's assertion (folder 14) that the...