Students at Harvard University were allowed to enter the campus Monday afternoon after officials said that there was no evidence of explosives in four buildings from an earlier bomb threat, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The university released a statement around 3 p.m. and said that students were allowed to enter the premises of Thayer Hall, a dorm, classrooms in Emerson and Sever halls, and the Science Center. The restriction to access Harvard Yard instituted earlier was also lifted, the report said.
The Harvard University Police Department evacuated all for buildings in the morning after it received a report that bombs were planted there. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Massachusetts State Police were also present during the incident.
"Harvard's focus is on the safety of our students, faculty and staff," the university said in a statement.
Exams scheduled Monday morning were all canceled because of the bomb threat. The university said that those students would be given options how they can complete their courses.
Harvard, on its website, also said that it would make allowances for students who feel they are not ready to take the exams. The university is taking into consideration the emotional impact of the incident that could have led to "anxiety, loss of study time, lack of access to material or belongings left in one of the affected buildings."
The bomb scare was unnerving to some students considering the Boston Marathon bombing last April. The bombing killed three and wounded more than 260.
"It made me a little bit nervous just because it brought up images of what happened," Shannon Lytle, a sophomore, said in an interview. Lytle just finished a final for a Japanese class Monday morning when the evacuation tool place. He wasn't in one of the cleared buildings.
Another campus, the University of Massachusetts Boston, tweeted that there was a "possible person with a firearm" and evacuated a building. The state police said the report was false and the scene was clear, said WSJ.
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