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Hardball’s Chris J. Matthews, a close friend of Emerson’s, agrees that the value in speaking with Harvard students is especially apparent within the context of Emerson’s “Coversations with Kirkland.”
More than simply draw luminaries to campus, Emerson teaches students how to engage with the guests.
“By his example, Peter showed us how to do so naturally and graciously—a lesson we carry with us for the rest of our lives,” says Bolek Z. Kabala ’03.
According to Emerson, the first speaker—former Senator Gary W. Hart—was a hit. What was most amazing, Emerson asserts, may not have been the effect that Hart had on the students, but the effect that the students had on the Senator. “In...
“The great thing about talking to students is that they are still focused on the biggest possible questions and the widest perspectives because they haven’t taken themselves professionally to a niche yet,” Matthews says. “They are wide open...