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Head of the Charles

photographed by Philip Greenspun, 1998


Head

Solo

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Not so Solo

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Not so not so Solo

(boats with 4 people in them)
Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

The roaring crowd

Newfoundland Bitch attending Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Working hard

Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, October 18, 1998. From the footbridge to Harvard Business School

Preparation for Life

Why is this regatta so important? Harvard University visits prep schools worldwide looking for people who can pull its boats to victory. Hundreds of thousands of people turn out to watch. Is it merely to see people row 3 miles up the river?

Head of the Charles is much more than that. Women, you see, are allowed to be coxswains on boats rowed by men. Thus the experience of a young man rowing in Head of the Charles is likely to be

  • he and all of the other men that he can see are working as hard as they possibly can
  • a woman who herself is doing no work is shouting at the top of her lungs demanding that they work harder

Let no one say that Ivy League colleges do not prepare their men for the harsh realities of the real world.

raw PhotoCDs
(for race participants)

Images Copyright 1998 Philip Greenspun. PhotoCD scans by Advanced Digital Imaging.

Article created 1998