In a "rush" between Yale sophomores and freshmen many students were injured. The sophomores took canes from the freshmen, who went in a body to attack their opponents. They were warmly received, and the affair became so serious that a squad of policemen had to be summoned.

There was excitement at the Adams school in Quincy yesterday, when the mother of a pupil who had been chastised entered the building and attempted to wreak physical vengeance upon the principal. The woman was with some difficulty quieted.

All the members of the senior class at Williston Seminary and many of the middlers cut recitations yesterday, on account of the refusal of the faculty to reinstate the men suspended for hazing. An attempt has been made to arrange a compromise with Principal Fairbanks, but it has not suceeded.

The professors of Yale College yesterday afternoon presented President Woolsey with a handsomely engraved gold medal, commemorative of the fifty years' service at Yale College of that distinguished professor. The presentation address was made by Prof. Thatcher, and was feelingly replied to by President Woolsey.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England, warmer, fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness, winds mostly southerly, stationary or lower pressure.