Cambridge remained quiet last night in the wake of yesterday's stabbing death of a 17-year-old Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school senior.

A white sutdent, Anthony Colosimo, was killed, and another, William Graham, 18, wounded in a fight with at least one and probably three black students, city manager James L. Sullivan and police said.

City, school and police officials stressed there was no evidence that the incident was racially motivated. City police arrested one suspect last night.

The school, which is located on Broadway one block east of Harvard Yard, has been closed until at least Thursday morning "to give things time to calm down," school superintendent William Lannon said last night.

High school faculty will meet this morning at the school to discuss how and when to reopen the school. East Cambridge parents, students and friends of the victims will meet at the Kennedy Elementary School this morning with representatives of the school department to talk about the situation.

Colosimo, a resident of East Cambridge, was pronounced dead at Cambridge City Hospital shortly after the one p.m. stabbing. Graham is reported in stable condition at the hospital.

The Cambridge School Committee will meet tonight to consider "any security measures that need to be brought up," chairman Alice Wolf said last night.

Some students, who asked to remain anonymous, said yesterday the incident may have been drug-related. Others, none of whom witnessed the fight, said it may have followed an argument among the youths last week.

The students battled in a corridor in an unfinished wing of the high school which Wolf said was "off limits" to students.

Several construction workers witnessed the incident, and apparently one workers broke up the fight, Sullivan said. Police will question the workers tomorrow, he added.

Police originally detained three youths, but late last night arrested one and released the other two. Police withheld the name of the juvenile arrested.

School officials sent students home for the day immediately after the incident.

The streets of the city were quiet and almost deserted after dark last night, as school personnel and police patrols circled Cambridge in case they were needed to quiet disturbances.

In East Cambridge, angry students and parents crowded into the hot upper room of the East End community center to shout at Lannon and school committee member Glenn Koocher about lax security and racial tension at the school.

Several students said school rules were too loose and that they were unfairly enforced, while other complained that the city should have worked to prevent the violence instead of "waiting until somebody was killed."