CAMBRIDGE — Hillary Clinton visited Harvard University Friday morning for a private event with a small group of students and was interviewed about her time as secretary of state.
Clinton’s appearance in Cambridge came after an event Thursday night at her alma mater, Wellesley College, where she was interviewed by the college’s president in front of students.
Both events were closed to the news media and the public. Even a planned livestream of the Wellesley event was canceled, and by Friday morning, some tweets from the Wellesley college newspaper covering the event were deleted.
At Harvard, Clinton participated in the “American Secretaries of State Project: Diplomacy, Negotiation, and Statecraft” interview series, which is a joint project of the school’s business, law, and government schools, the Harvard Crimson reported.
Students lined up behind a rope in the courtyard at Kirkland House to greet Clinton. A ticket was required to attend the event.
Some students held signs with messages like, “You are an inspiration,” and “2020?”
The crowd erupted into cheers as Clinton walked into the courtyard just before 10 a.m. and some chanted her name.
Savannah Fritz, 22, a Harvard senior from Greencastle, Pa., campaigned for Clinton last fall and lamented her loss in the presidential election, saying it “put a lot of people in danger.”
“Hillary’s a huge role model to me,” she said.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said Clinton spent Thursday night in Boston and had no other events planned in Boston during this trip.
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