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...head down to Kirkland House on a Saturday in October, you might think our ivied bricks had been airmailed to Columbus, Ohio or Lincoln, Nebraska. Jocks do exist at Harvard--that is for sure. For everyone who doesn't know the difference between a down-and-out and being down-and-out, there are a couple who think reading period is the time when a quarterback tries to figure out a defense. Not that the bookish wonks or the dumb jocks are revered characters on campus. There is really no such thing as a Big (Wo) Man on Campus...
Roger Rice Columbus...
...Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; The Right Stuff) to keep his identity under his hat, especially when it is a hand-blocked and brushed blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world in The Painted Word (1975), unleashes his hell-bent prose on the architectural profession this fall in From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $10.95). At Hartford's old gallery he got an edifying...
...Nebraska Housewife Loralea Rushton, 39, is not called Mom by her three daughters, but Mrs. Rushton. Reason: Mrs. Rushton, who is a registered nurse, acts as principal and teacher for her children, who attend school in the basement family room of her home in Columbus, Neb. She sits at a small desk before a sign on a bulletin board that proclaims: HE is RISEN. The girls, ages 9, 11 and 12, are the school's only students. They sit at a large table partitioned into three cubicles, quietly working on a correspondence curriculum supplied by Illinois' Christian Liberty...
...girls like to be with other children," says Mrs. Rushton, "but they don't want to be with children who are taught contrary to our thinking." Nebraska authorities have challenged the activities of some Christian schools in the state, but have so far ignored home study in Columbus. Says Warren Rushton, 42, a mechanical engineer and teaching elder at the Platte Valley Baptist Church in Columbus: "It would be horrible if the sheriff comes some day when I'm gone and gives Loralea and the children a summons, when they let the dopeheads and potheads run loose...