Prior to speaking, Harold sat down to dinner alongside attendees in Eliot at tables adorned with American flags and pennies featuring the bust of the celebrated president.
For anyone who doubted the presence of Republicans on Harvard’s campus, the dinner, attended by more than 100 Republican students, proved conservatism is alive and kicking.
The approximately 20 remaining students who came to hear Harold speak hailed from area schools and Harvard’s graduate schools.
The GOPers said they enjoyed meeting and greeting students who shared their political ideals.
“You definitely feel like a minority as someone who’s willing to express their conservative viewpoints,” said Helen V. Renton ’08. “It’s fun to find people you’ve seen before but didn’t know were Republican.”
The Lincoln Day Dinner is an annual event hosted nationwide by Republicans to recognize advances within their party.
—Staff writer Faryl W. Ury can be reached at ury@fas.harvard.edu.