A man slept over last Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in a basement common room in Cabot House before accusations of harassment caused House officials to order him to leave.

Cabot House Master James H. Ware had originally invited the stranger to spend Friday night in Cabot.

"We actually thought of it initially as an act of hospitality," Ware said.

But when Ware learned a female student had complained about the man's conduct at a party, he said the man became "unwelcome" and was told to leave the house permanently.

The man, who attended summer school at Harvard, knocked on the door of Cabot House resident David E. Martin '00 Friday night, calling himself "Colin" and saying he had come from Houston to meet a friend in Cambridge. Through a series of mishaps, the man had not been able to find his friend, according to Martin. The man then explained that he had lived in Martin's room during his summer school stay.

Martin said that, after consulting with Ware, he set the man up with a place to sleep in one of Cabot's basement common rooms.

The man's one night stay then turned into two.

Ware said he had thought the man would only stay over Friday night and was unaware the man continued to sleep in the common room during the weekend.