Word: rural
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE. - The Vokes' Family in "Too, too, Truly Rural...
...Globe, the Vokes Family will present for the first time in Boston their new play, "Too, too, Truly Rural," which is said to be very amusing, although possessing nothing very original. It is rather strange, this remarkable success of the Vokes. They sing and dance fairly well, to be sure; but any variety house has artistes who can do as well. Their wit is decidedly weak, breathing throughout of London Punch; but for all this, we have seen people almost split their sides, and permanently contort their faces over one of Fred or "Georgy" Vokes' puns...
...regard it as nothing more than a reaction from the inevitable tendency of which we have spoken. The movement is undeniable; it has of course manifested itself first at the great centres of student-life - the larger universities of the country; but it is already spreading among the rural colleges. As the satire runs in the daily press, "A student is now regarded just like a human being, and is supposed to have the sensations and emotions of a man." Another result, or rather evidence of this course of affairs, is seen in the contest between the paternal...
...races on the Cam were "bumping" races; that is, one boat started first, and if the following crew could run their bow into the stern of the other this was victory. This led to regular racing as now in vogue, though "bumping" contests are still engaged in by the rural colleges, and they are often features of country regattas. It was in 1829, and in the summer, that the first race between Oxford and Cambridge was rowed at Henley-on-Thames...
BOSTON MUSEUM. 7.45 P.M. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday, at 2. To-night, and Sat. Matinee, Boucicault's "Old Heads and Young Hearts," with Mr. Warren as Jesse Rural. Saturday evening, Miss Martinot's benefit, - the "Spark," "Asmodeus," and the "Little Rebel." March 29, "Robinsonnade," and "The Lark," which promise to be very amusing...