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From Siel, one learned more than ever that life and sanitation are not be separated. He was a superlative plumber whose thoughts flowed with import and were never dull...
...following chapter, "A Storm Drain of Light," is reprinted from pages 81-85 of The Age of the Plumber: Observations on Sanitation in a Troubled Decade, a new book by Y.P. Emsun, Director of Harvard University Plumbing since...
...came to Harvard in the autumn of 1924, an unintimidated apprentice plumber in an expectant and receptive mood. My first impression, as I suppose is true of most new men who come to Cambridge from the Midwest, was a sense of the sanitation problems around me, illustrated by Harvard's old buildings and other evidences of sewerage difficulties of which I only vaguely conscious through my studies in plumbers' school. But my second impression was of my fellow workers--or at least the first group of them...
Dare I admit that now my most vivid recollection of my first year's apprenticeship is a phase from a lecture on waste disposal? The teacher of this training course was a lively master plumber, whose name, unfortunately, has long since left me. For this particular lecture he had written a short whimsical account of the progress of waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent...
...University. From that time, each day was filled with what were to me fresh ideas on plumbing and exciting inspirations to go on learning about sanitation. Associating with Siel was not so much an exercise in learning as an experience of life itself. There was much of the working plumber about him, but what chiefly remains is an image of Siel quoting--one might almost say spewing forth--an endless flood of didactic poetry with such delight that one could not fail to feel its enchantment...