Your report on page 1 could take as its model the front statement of any CEO of any large corporation in America, touting the strength of the corporation and its products. It is designed to sell Chicago as a high-powered product, to boost its standing in the market. The Image that CGCA creates is anything but the scholarship of which it speaks in its texts. To be sure, anyone who sits down and reads it cover to cover will be impressed with Research as a central theme, especially the kind that results in Nobel Prizes. One may also be impressed that nowhere in CGCA is there a picture, even a small one, of students engaged in discussion with one another in a seminar room.
Omissions have a voice, too.
But I am probably the last one among those for whom CGCA was intended, so my response is probably irrelevant. Check it out. One final comment about a phrase I read attributed to you, to the effect that a class size of 40 is very little different from one of 30 in regard to conducting class discussion. In that more realistic context, I would say that a move from 30 to 40 might have little effect, but not at all with the implication that discussion would flourish as well among the 40 as well as the 30.