Bibliography: "Ulysses" by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

In an 1897 Courier article, Cather transcribes the lines quoted by explorer Fridtjof Nansen in a Pittsburgh address: "One equal temper of heroic hearts,/Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."

In "The Professor's Commencement," Emerson Graves wonders how many of his students who promised "to follow knowledge like a sinking star beyond the utmost bound of human thought" actually did so.