The Peabody Terrace apartments are home to about 1,300 residents, but most were not at home during yesterday's evacuation, officials said.
Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE), which owns Peabody Terrace, coordinated the University's response to the emergency.
Many Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers were called in from their shifts and were posted around the perimeter of the apartment complex.
Three residents complaining of dizziness were transported to local hospitals. They were treated and released.
The University provided food and shelter for about 300 evacuees, many of them small children.
At first, residents took refuge in Mather House common rooms and the nearby Martin Luther King Jr. School, where children watched "Pokemon" on television in the cafeteria.
In mid-afternoon, shuttle buses took them to the chilly Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts across the river.
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