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One of my uncles used to run steam boilers at Harvard when he was a young man. When WWII started, he joined the Navy and his experience with boilers quickly got him in the engine room. After the war he went back to see about his old job and was told in no uncertain terms that he was not wanted. On his way off campus, a janitor had told him how the engineering professors had blown up the boilers the week after he left. It seems the profs didn't have to read the instruction manuals since they knew better than anyone else how to run a boiler and they were Harvard professors. They spent three winters witout heat due to their stupidity.