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Wednesday, April 18, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Seeking Hemingway secrets
The Associated Press
AMHERT, Mass. — From small-town America to Japan, scholars eager to explore the secrets of Ernest Hemingway come to Massachusetts to sift through the working papers he left behind.
An English professor's unraveling of a new, unpublished work that he thinks is the last short story Hemingway wrote, and a Nantucket scholar's find of a separate, incomplete work are the latest chapters in the literary detective story that has been underway for a decade.
"I think it's a growth industry," said Megan Desnyers, curator of the Hemingway Room at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, where 95 percent of the legendary author's manuscripts are kept.
"In a way it is a literary gold mine because it's all here," Desnoyers said. "He wanted people to study how hard it is to be a writer."
The thousands of papers, letters and photographs given to the library by Hemingway's widow, Mary, have so far yielded such finds as the 44 endings Hemingway left behind for "A Farewell to Arms" and dispatches about the Spanish Civil War written for U.S. newspapers. Four times a year, new materials are made available to researchers, Desnoyers said.
"Some of them are exceptional,
and some of them aren't," she said.
"It's fascinating because
there are so many scholars out
here who are very, very interested."
The collection has spurred Hemingway studies, said Robert Lewis, professor of English at the University of North Dakota and
Scholars examine unpublished documents at library in Boston
president of the Hemingway Society.
"He was a real squirrel. He wouldn't throw anything away," said Lewis, who once came across a laundry list tucked inside a version of "Death in the Afternoon" at a Texas university.
The collection at the Hemingway Room has drawn 217 visitors during the past six months, Desnoyers said.
"We get quite a range," she said. "We get high school students, which I love. We get undergraduates from local schools but also from Miami, Ohio and Stanford."
A recent group of visitors was typical, she said. Two were casual tourists. One was a medieval scholar working on establishing dates for Hemingway's papers. One was an independent scholar working on "A Moveable Feast." And one was a professor from Japan who is spending a year in Boston working on the collection.
The latest scholars to strike gold in the boxes of photocopied manuscripts were Donald Junkins, University of Massachusetts English professor, and Susan Beegel, independent scholar.
Junkins' search began two years ago when he started examining two manuscripts. One was a novel fragment that he thought Hemingway could not finish. The second had the same plot but different names. It appeared to be an earlier version of the novel fragment.
But by following the revisions scrawled on the document, Junk-
insider deciphered a manuscript that took the failed novel plot and turned it into a short story about a love triangle that bears some resemblance to the breakup of one of Hemingway's marriages.
“As I wrote and as I kept writing, I knew that I had a story, but I didn't know if I had an ending,” he said. “That's the big thing. That was the exciting part of it.”
Beegel got her clue from a reference at the end of Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" to a piece called "A Lack of Passion." The incomplete story is about an atypical Hemingway hero: a frightened, impotent bullfighter.
"It's going to help change the way people think about Herningway," she said.
In his last posthumous novel, "Garden of Eden," Hemingway discards the dependable themes that made "The Sun Also Rises," "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" so powerful: strong masculine characters and values. Instead, he experiments with a complex female character and the tricky subject of sexual ambiguity.
Catherine, on whose believability much of the novel hinges, is not fully developed as a character. In the Hemingway works with strong masculine themes, it did not matter if the women were shallow because their main purpose usually was to buttress a male protagonist.
between 1946 and 1961, which was the year Hemingway committed suicide at the age of 61.
When he wrote the novel, he was 47 years old, married to Mary, his fourth wife and living in Cuba. He was also an alcoholic and was struggling with his writing. His last great novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," had been published seven years earlier, and his major work of the 1940s, "Access the River and Into The Trees," would not be well-received when it finally was published in 1950.
The two recently discovered works were published in the April issue of the Hemingway Review, the scholarly journal of the Hemingway Society. Lewis said that the society, which does business as the Hemingway Foundation, had control of what was printed in the Review but that it had granted Hemingway's three sons some control of any works that are offered to a commercial magazine.
"Garden of Eden" was written
The resurgence of interest in Hemingway follows a dimming of the author's star, Lewis said.
the author, "I think the feminist movement had a lot to do with it," he said.
Hemingway's rough-and-ready, macho image owed a lot to Hollywood hype, Lewis said. But the scrutiny of Hemingway's attitude toward women turned out to be positive when scholars began justifying why they were spending time teaching and studying Hemingway.
Lewis and Desnoyers said they expected several more works to emerge from the Hemingway Room. Although the works probably will not equal Hemingway's best, they offer valuable clues to the writer's mind, they said.
By Chris Siron
Kansan staff writer
The mainstay of complex mathematics during the 1950s has become the curiosity piece of the 1990s.
The slide rule was the crutch for engineers and mathematicians until the computer age. Main-frame computers forced slide rules out of the laboratory in the '60s, and pocket calculators stole the home market in the '70s.
JoAn Patino, administrative aide at the Dietzen Corporation, an office product manufacturer based in Des Plaines, Ill., said the company discovered more than 50,000 slide rules in its warehouses several years ago.
She said the company began giving the slide rules away free to anyone who asked for one. However, the company did not anticipate the overwhelming response for the obsolete number crunchers.
The company has stopped filling requests, unless they come from schools, because employees are not sure how many of the slide rules are left. Patino estimated there were fewer than 4,000 in stock.
"Since the word got out that we have these, we have been inundated with requests." Patino said. "However, it is beginning to cost us a lot. There's a lot more reaction than we thought."
"Honestly, some people will take anything if they think it's free," she said
Patino said she could not imagine why people would want one of the outdated slide rules.
Don Daughterh, KU chairman of electrical engineering, said that he
used a slide rule during his college years from 1953 to 1963 but that he happily abandoned it in 1974 when he got his first calculator.
"I've got two at home for historical purposes, but I was ready to see it go," he said. "As far as I know nobody uses them anymore."
The slide rule is a device that consists of two rules marked with logarithmic scales and arranged to slide along each other. It is used in performing mathematical operations, including square and cube roots.
Daugherty said the calculator was faster and more accurate than the slide rule.
"With the slide rule you can realistically keep track of three significant figures," he said. "With a calculator you can keep track of many more."
The slide rule cannot perform addition or subtraction operations, Daugherty said.
The slide rule, once the most sophisticated math device available, was invented in 1632 by William Oughtred, an English clergyman.
Fred Stubebek, manager of Strong's Office Systems, 1040 Vermont St., said, "Without being too faceted, I can say lots of luck in finding one. It's so dead I don't think you can find one anymore unless you find a store that, just by bad luck, has one or two left."
Michelle Kalaskey, customer service representative for Keuffel and Esser, an office products manufacturer based in Johnson City, N.Y., said the company's Rockaway, N.J., warehouse had about 50 of its Log-Log Duplex Decitrig model slide rules left.
House bill would require universities to publish crime statistics
By Rich Cornell Special to the Kansan
This is the second of a two-part series on a crime bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When shopping for a college, many students compare academic programs, cost and even the number of places they can go for a drink.
The U.S. House of Representatives bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Tom Coleman, R-Missouri, would affect the 8,000 institutions of higher education that receive federal funds, including the University of Kansas.
They can add camp safety to their checklists if a federal bill passes requiring schools to publish their crime and safety records*
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police said KU was one of 352 institutions that already voluntarily made reports of campus crime available to the FBI and to the public. Neither city nor school police are required by federal law to report crime statistics.
Forcing all schools to publish crime statistics uniformly would allow better comparisons of schools' crime rates, Mullens said.
Parents concerned about the safety of their children at colleges would benefit the most from the bill, Mullens said.
"It will at least give us a little common ground," he said.
Dil, Markus said.
"That's who we get most of the inquiries from," he said.
Coleman said the bill would provide parents and students with
specific information about crime at schools and the steps taken to prevent it.
"All I really want is for schools to be honest," he said. "The higher education community has got to recognize this as a problem and deal with it."
Administration dubious
Coleman conducted a congressional subcommittee hearing April 11 to gather comments from students and administrators from the region. Administrators from KU and the student body president declined an invitation to testify.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig did not speak at the hearing because he did not have a strong opinion about the bill, said James Scally, assistant to the chancellor.
"We are not violently opposed to what they propose," Scally said. "We have some reservations about the bill."
Scally sent a report to Coleman detailing the administration's concerns, he said. The administration is skeptical of the bill because its definition of campus includes land and buildings owned or controlled by student organizations that are recognized by the institution.
The University should not take responsibility for students' behavior off campus, Scaally said.
KU police now records crimes that take place on campus, Mullens said. The bill would require the department to record and publish crimes that occur at such places as fraternities and sororities or the Crew Club's boathouse.
Coleman said at the hearing that schools could face lawsuits to determine how much liability they had for off-campus organizations.
"If they are sanctioned by the university, there would be some responsibility," he said.
In response to concerns from the administrators of several institutions, Coleman said he would consider narrowing the bill's definition of campus.
The bill also concerns the KU administration because it would give schools responsibility for ensuring that doors and windows in students' rooms are locked, Scaly said.
He and Mullens envisioned hall monitors checking each resident's door as the resident left for class.
"I can't imagine that the stu
B. Jake White perplexed
White said a Coleman assistant, Craig Orfield, asked him last week to testify about Student Senate efforts to improve campus safety. But Orfield did not explain the bill or tell him the time and place of the hearing.
B. Jake White, student body president, said he declined an invitation to speak at the hearing because he did not receive details about it.
Orfield described the week's events differently. He said he talked to White on April 4 and again the next day, when White confirmed that he would attend.
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