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For one day, Science Hill becomes a water slide.

Chris Randall

Chris Randall

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When alumni talk about Science Hill, it’s usually a story about trudging to lab in the snow—uphill both ways, as some recount it. But for one day in June, Prospect Street became a thousand-foot-long water slide from Edwards Street to Sachem. Around 4,000 people took the plunge, thanks to a traveling enterprise called Slide the City.

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