“A vacancy having occurred in this professorship by the death of Dr. Tappan in 1804, strenuous efforts were made, and as strenuously resisted, to fill his place with a professor of Unitarian belief. After a contest of a year, two members of the corporation having died, and their places having been filled by “liberal” men, Henry Ware of Hingham was appointed. He was an anti-Calvinist, though he had not then declared himself a Unitarian. The right to examine him with respect to his theological beliefs was denied. Intense and bitter opposition to Dr. Ware’s appointment at once manifested itself both within and without the college.”

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Congregationalists in America, by Albert Elijah Dunning and Joseph Edwin Roy, 1894, page 286