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href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">Short story</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;">Publication</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Published in</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/New_England_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Magazine">New England Magazine</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication type</th><td class="infobox-data">Literary magazine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication date</th><td class="infobox-data">June 1902</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>The Professor's Commencement</b>" is a <a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a> by <a href="/wiki/Willa_Cather" title="Willa Cather">Willa Cather</a>. It was first published in <i><a href="/wiki/New_England_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Magazine">New England Magazine</a></i> in June 1902<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_introduction">Plot introduction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Professor%27s_Commencement&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot introduction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Pittsburgh high school teacher spends his last day at work before retiring. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Professor%27s_Commencement&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early in the morning, the Professor wakes up and reads; his sister tells him she wishes he had been more ambitious with his life. On his way to the high school where he teaches, he is unnerved by the grimness and ugliness of <a href="/wiki/Industrialisation" title="Industrialisation">industrialisation</a>. Similarly, when he asks one of the students to read aloud, he is annoyed at the noise from the nearby factory that mars the reading. He then proceeds to pick up his stuff and join his colleagues for a <a href="/wiki/Retirement" title="Retirement">retirement</a> party. However, he bungles up the speech he gives there; his sister says it doesn't matter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Professor%27s_Commencement&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Emerson</b>, the professor. He went to <a href="/wiki/Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a> and worked at a <a href="/wiki/High_school" class="mw-redirect" title="High school">high school</a> for thirty years.</li> <li><b>Miss Agatha Graves</b>, Emerson's widowed sister.</li> <li><b>Mr Fairbrother</b>, a friend of Agatha's.</li> <li><b>Dr Maitland</b>, a colleague of Emerson's.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Allusions_to_other_works">Allusions to other works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Professor%27s_Commencement&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Allusions to other works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Painting is mentioned with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Burne-Jones" title="Edward Burne-Jones">Edward Burne-Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a>, <a 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href="/wiki/Rostam_and_Sohrab" title="Rostam and Sohrab">Rostam and Sohrab</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bible">The Bible</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Mammon" title="Mammon">Mammon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samson" title="Samson">Samson</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a> is also alluded to, with <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Ulysses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hector" title="Hector">Hector</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_significance_and_criticism">Literary significance and criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Professor%27s_Commencement&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literary significance and criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been suggested that the story was spurred by Cather's own experience as a high school teacher in <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a> in 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been noted that the professor is more feminine, whilst his sister is more masculine.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Moreover, it has been argued that the story follows in the wake of the "pedagogic eros of the Greeks", with Emerson's affection for his "pupil with the gentle eyes and manner of a girl".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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