Sixty assistant professors and instructors joined the striking anti-Jewish students, declaring that since only Jews attended the lectures, they saw no purpose in continuing to teach. Appeals by the Jewish student body to the instructors to disregard the anti-Semitic boycott proved unavailing.
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