8:16 p.m.--A security guard in the Yard reports objects being thrown from a window at Canaday Hall. Police respond, hearing that a person was nearly struck by one of the items. The culprit cannot be found. A student tells The Crimson that the objects were books belonging to an exam-weary Yardling.

8:48 p.m.--Harvard police confront a drunk person on Holyoke St. The man moves along.

9:16 p.m.--An urgent all-points bulletin is broadcast over the police radio frequency. Two men in Brookline, one wielding a meat cleaver, have robbed a man and fled on bicycles. The pair then stashed the bikes in a black sports car and drove away. Harvard police hear the report over their police scanners, but since there are no reports that the two are headed to Cambridge, the police know they are unlikely to encounter them.

9:23 p.m.--Cambridge police respond quickly to a head-on automobile accident near Harvard Square at Garden St. Victims at the site show bumps and bruises, but all refuse medical treatment. Police question one driver, who appeared to have crossed the center line into the on-coming lane.

An officer asks the man to perform field sobriety tests. The officer drops a pen and asks the man to pick it up. He also asks the man to say the alphabet backwards. The officer decides to call the police wagon and, when it arrives, the driver involved with the accident is handcuffed, put in the back and transported to the Cambridge police station in Central Square.

Traffic, blocked for about 10 minutes, flows again after a tow truck pulls away one of the damaged cars and the fire department washes down the scene.

9:48 p.m.--Harvard police receive a report of a person harassing passers-by near the Jefferson Laboratories. A police motorcycle and squad car respond, but cannot locate the suspect.

10:02 p.m.--Cambridge police respond to the Brattle Square area after a merchant complains about a juggler in front of his store. Police arrive and the juggler ends his show.

Veteran street performer Mark Farneth refrains from criticizing the police. Instead, he pins blame on a fellow juggler. "A while ago, he fell off his unicycle and broke a window," Farneth says. He says the failure to clear up the matter quickly with the storeowner led to a crackdown on all street entertainment.

Although permits require street performers to shut down after 10 p.m., police typically allow jugglers, musicians and the like to stay as long as the crowds do. Tonight, the call about the juggler forces police to evict all the entertainers.

10:09 p.m.--Harvard police patrolling Harvard Square find four drunk, apparently homeless people on the Holyoke Center grates. After a computer check, officers learn one of the men faces an arrest warrant in Barnstable, Mass. The 41-year-old is handcuffed and taken to a waiting cruiser.

10:42 p.m.--Police claim they are "blinded" by a flash from a Crimson photographer's camera as they make an arrest. Officers seize bursar's cards from the photographer, as well as a reporter. The officers, one of whom is wearing sunglasses, say that their safety is jeopardized when they cannot see properly. One officer suggests that the arrest should not be of interest to Harvard students. Another says that 40 to 50 percent of the homeless are armed.

The four men being questioned, seated against a concrete wall, repeatedly ask that their photographs be taken.

11:02 p.m.--A Loeb Drama Center employee reports a stolen video camera and says the suspect is fleeing down Mt. Auburn St. Police broadcast a description, but cannot locate the suspect.

11:36 p.m.--Harvard police receive a call that a "Couple of hundred youths" are loitering in front of Grays Hall. The crowd appears to have spilled out of party at a nearby dorm. Police move through the crowd urging people to "move along."