Unitarian Controversy breaks out in Cambridge.

The controversy occurs when Rev. Henry Ware, a Unitarian, is appointed Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard College, a position that had always been held by a Congregationalist. Ware’s appointment signals a dramatic theological shift in the Boston area. Within the next two years, four more Unitarians are appointed to the faculty, making Harvard the center of the Unitarian movement in the U.S. and a place where, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, “Hot-gospelling was poor form, hell was not mentioned, and venerable preachers treated the students, not as limbs of Satan, but as younger brothers of their Lord and Savior.”