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.
