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...town college students should shoulder the burden of a decision made by local voters," John A. Hammond, a first-year student from Pennsylvania said...
...organization probably has more impact on its core of members than on the general student body. Members applaud the fact that the group helps them-on an individual basis-grow spiritually. "Most people believe they should assume one posture for their intellectual lives and another at church," Ray A. Hammond '71, a tutor at Currier House, says. "Personally, I came to the point where I wasn't satisfied in leading that dual life." He adds that the integration of the two postures emerged from his close study of the Bible with the society...
Members of the society agree that the Christian intellectual should work in the church, especially since its concerns ultimately lie with its community. But Hammond says he is "not sure if education, politics and other social concerns are the major goals of the church." For the last decade the Church has lost its original focus, concentrating, instead, on the welfare of the community, he says, adding, "We must return to the simple power of truth and simplicity in the Gospel." Stressing his support for the Seymour Society's current, more personal, orientation, he argues that the bulk of the church...
...there is definitely not the desire for big parties here the way there was in college," first-year Princeton graduate Michele Hamilton says. Once in a while--a long while--Vanderbilt stages large parties and dances, but, according to Hamilton, they are usually pretty bad. First year student John Hammond, who heads back to Williams when he can afford the time off from studying, says, "On weekends this place is dead, I mean, you can just about see tumbleweeds blowing across the courtyard. The social life here is terrible compared to college, but mostly we're here to study...
...weekends this place is dead, I mean, you can just about see tumbleweeds blowing across the courtyard. The social life here is terrible compared to college...' --John Hammond, a first-year medical student...