Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue coats and brass buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair...
...across the whole park. It's really ugly. And there's a chain link fence all around the hole. I don't like fences anyway so I am one of the first to jump on it and tear it down. Enter the NYPD. One of them grabs the fence gate and tries to shut it. Some demonstrators grab him. I yell let that cop go, partly because I feel sorry for the cop and partly because I know that the nightsticks will start to flagellate on our heads, which indeed they do. One of my friends goes down...
...Square the riot seemed to fizzle. Students tried to get back into the Yard. But in a brilliant tactical maneuver, police shut the gate on half of them, thus splitting the ranks...
...freshmen streaked out the gate by Holworthy before a lone cop could lock it up. They poured across the Cambridge Common to Radcliffe, then came back through the Common toward the Houses. They ran around Quincy's courtyard for a while, then took off down Mass Ave. with 30 upperclassmen added to their ranks...
...students regrouped around Holworthy Gate and began to move to ward Lesley. A Cambridge Police car shined its bright lights at the crowd in an effort to turn it away. But one student yelled, "Charge!" and the rioters went roaring past...