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"The Namesake" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in McClure's in March 1907.
"The Professor's Commencement" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in New England Magazine in June 1902
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Bernice Slote, a Willa Cather scholar, was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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- ↑ Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-29, University of Nebraska Press; December 1973, page 38