New York Times – Jacques Steinberg
“‘We’d rather see a marathon than a bunch of sprints,” Ms. Delahunty said — and no, for those of you who run track and cross-country, she wasn’t speaking literally. “We’d rather see a student who has been engaged over a couple of years in an activity rather than someone who goes to 12 different meetings in a month and doesn’t really dig deep into one activity.'”(more)