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...first running of the race--a three-mile test of endurance rowed from Magazine Beach east of B.U. upstream to Herter Park just past the Eliot Bridge--was held on October 16, 1965, and attracted less than 100 boats. Since then, the regatta has mushroomed into an enormous New England tradition that attracts thousands of athletes from all over the world and more than 250,000 spectators each year...
...first race begins at 8:30 a.m. and the last will end at 4:30 p.m. The course runs upstream three miles along the Charles from the Boston University Boathouse to the Herter Center in Brighton...
This year, the Head will feature more than 3500 rowers in 840 boats, competing in a total of 16 individual and crew races. The course begins at the Boston University Bridge and spans three miles to the finish line near the Herter Center on Soldiers Field Road...
Boats will be taking off from the Boston University boat house at 10-15 second intervals and finishing near the Metropolitan District Commission's Herter Center...
...Amendment before Joseph McCarthy's Senate investigating committee in 1953-54, McCarthy demanded that they be fired, but Harvard's new president, Nathan Pusey, refused. "There is now an especially urgent obligation upon our universities to preserve freedom of inquiry and freedom of teaching," he said. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter urged Pusey to fire anyone who took the Fifth Amendment, but Pusey stood firm. A decade later, however, he sacked Timothy Leary, then a lecturer in psychology, for not only singing the praises of LSD but experimentally feeding it to some of his students...