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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s my unpopular opinion: does it really matter than an Econ seminar course or topology class have 10 kids in it? If the college limits enrollment in these courses, the students will complain next that they can’t finish their majors or there’s limited course availability. Students deserve to take the courses they want to, and if that means a few students may have to move a few chairs from one to the other, that’s a much better alternative to shutting students off  and keeping 8 students in the class because of some desire for intimacy about a subject as mundane as econometrics.[/quote]

Agree with you.

Based on my high school and flagship experience a class size of 30-ish is acceptable with motivated, interested learners.

What I got out of this article, bottom line, is that Middlebury needs to invest in new stackable chairs.

When I got my first dorm at a flagship, I flipped my wooden chair over and it had a name plaque on it that proved the chair was at least 40, if not 60, years old. My first government office in the 90s had old blond wood furniture that a government colleague of mine amusingly referred to as the "LBJ Great Society furniture".

Midd needs chairs.  Cheaper than remedying bad p.r.[/quote]

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