Students at New York’s City College have voted overwhelmingly for the dismissal of Prof. William E. Knickerbocker, an instructor charged with anti-Semitism, it was announced here today. In the first direct test of opinion on the campus the students voted 4,440 to 564 to petition the authorities to oust Prof. Knickerbocker. The vote, held in all classrooms yesterday, was conducted with permission of the college authorities and classroom instructors distributed the ballots.
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