Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Putnam; 288 pages...
Three Harvard students also placed in the top five individually as part of the 49th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a standardized six-hour, six-question exam...
...competition was begun in 1938 "to encourage the idea of competition in academic subjects in colleges," according to Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Andrew M. Gleason, a former team coordinator. The contest is named for William Lowell Putnam (1882), whose trust fund sponsors the event...
Most agree that Putnam's outsider status will not affect his ability to accomplish these goals. Bok and colleagues say that Putnam's energy and his willingness to listen to faculty and student concerns will quickly help him become acquainted with the school's inner workings...
...Putnam seems to have all the requisite ingredients for the deanship. If his qualifications translate into action, as it seems they will, the Kennedy School should prosper under his leadership well into the next decade...