Freshmen who tried to enter the locked gates around the Yard were clubbed by police in scattered incidents throughout the evening.

Mt. Auburn Street and side streets near Winthrop, Lowell, Quiney, and Adams Houses were filled with rioters, and student onlookers by 9 p. m. Police cleared Mt. Auburn to Holyoke Center and then made repeated forays in the direction of Lowell House.

In front of Holyoke Center, police emptied a car of suited middle-aged men, beat them, and sent them on their way.

As police moved cast on Mt. Auburn Street, they fired barrages of tear gas in the vicinity of the crowd. Students claimed that many of the cannisters were aimed at the far side of the crowd, cutting off their retreat from the advancing police.

Police generally fired tear gas in the air, but there were repeated reports of cannisters fired from the hip directly at demonstratora. One cannister struck a girl on Mt. Auburn St. in the leg. She was knocked down bleeding and carried off by the crowd.

Later in the night, a policeman reportedly fired a tear gas canuister in a boy's face. The boy had been standing near a trash fire in front of Kracker jacks at Mass. Ave and Plympton St. and was throwing paving stones at the store's window.

One student was reportedly carried unconscious into the residence of Lowell House Master Zeph Stewart after an early sortie on Mt. Auburn St. Police chased one demonstrator over a locked gate into the Quincy House Court Yard and proceeded to beat him before climbing back over the fence and rejoining the main body of police.

Tear gas in the vicinity of Adams, Lowell, and Quincy Houses was sometimes as thick as fog. Students repeatedly cried for water. Many held moistened towels over their mouths and noses. Small puddles of vomit dotted the streets.

In Adams House, a reception for visiting professor Lionel Trilling broke up when guests began to notice the gas. Mrs. Diana Trilling disappeared and returned with wetted towels for the company.

Playwright Arthur Kopit and author John Lahr, son of Bert Lahr, both scheduled to give speeches at the Quiney House Arts Festival at 8 p. m. last night, instead disappeared into the street with their wives.

George Wald, Higgins Profesor of Biology, was ubiquitous, seen vaulting a wall at Quincy House to prevent rioters from stoning the dining hall window, talking to students, and trying to reason with police. Given the cold shoulder by a group of helmeted troopers. Wald turned around only to meet an elderly, stooped woman guided from the cordon by a crowd of policemen. She was Jesse Whitehead, daughter of Alfred North Whitehead.

"You never miss anything, do you Jesse?" Wald said.

Rioters continually threw stones and bricks at police. Police cars met volleys of bricks, though a Boston Fire Patrol car, driven by a fireman who kept his right hand raised in the v-sign of peace. drove up and down Mass. Ave unscathed.

Police occasionally returned demon strators' volleys of bricks, A police officer in a tan sports coat with a badge picked stones off the street and threw them at retreating demonstrators near Elsie's on Mt. Auburn Street. A policeman threw a stone through a window in the Spee Club.

Robert Tonis, Chief of University Police, said that when his men tried, just before midnight, to take two students to Mass. General Hospital "people on the street broke every window and the windshield of the car." The police made it through to the hospital.