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ROB CHANEY As a little squad of musicians marched across Harvard Yard, the police officer next to me started to cry. “These kids, man …” he said as the six saxophone players and a drum major climbed the empty steps of Widener Library and started to play “Another One Bites the Dust.” Down below, lines of rental cars crept along the Yard’s sidewalks, ferrying away bewildered freshmen and their garbage-bagged belongings. All across the campus, sections of the Harvard Marching Band serenaded the load-out. The order to close Harvard College, and virtually every other residential campus in Boston, was just hours old. What was supposed to have been a Friday of filing midterm exams and packing swimsuits for a week of relaxation had transmogrified into an evacuation. No one knew when or if they might return.  

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