After the brawl settled down, the police wee able to arrest Solet and charged him with two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
A number of people were injured during the fight, including one who was wounded seriously enough to be brought to Massachusetts General Hospital.
"One person received a back injury and had to be hospitalized," said Cambridge Police Department spokesperson Frank Pasquarello.
Pasquarello said that it did not appear that any Harvard students were involved in the fight.
-Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu.