Officers worked 12-16 hour shifts every day monitoring the protest, and eventually HUPD had to ask for additional officers from the Cambridge Police Department.

The exhausted officers were grateful to see the protest come to a peaceful solution.

"It'll be nice to have some time off," Sergeant Wilmon Chipman said.

But the mood was bittersweet across the Yard behind the crowds, in the "tent city" of supporters that has sprung up in the Yard over the past few weeks.

The sprinklers were turned on last night for the first time in weeks and as the afternoon wore on, the tent city residents rolled up their sleeping bags and prepared to leave the Yard.

By evening, the "tent city" had all but disappeared, leaving only small piles of trash in its wake.

One middle-aged resident--who had slept in the makeshift city since its creation weeks ago and had even moved into a larger tent over the course of the sit-in--said he simply did not know where he was going to go.

"I wish they would provide some sort of transitional housing," he said, as he folded the clothes strewn about his tent.