Word: putnam
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...team of three undergraduates grabbed first place honors in the Putnam Mathematical Competition, giving Harvard its first top finish in the national math contest in 17 years...
...contest's exam was given to nearly 2000 undergraduates in early December. University Treasurer George C. Putnam '49, a grandson of the competition's original sponsor, said yesterday "28 young faculty members holed up in a motel over New Year's weekend" to correct the test...
...three team members each will receive a $500 prize and the Mathematics Department will get a gift of $5000, Putnam said. In addition, one of the individual participants with the top five scores on the exam--whose name has not been announced--will be awarded a Putnam Fellowship, a stipend for two years of study at any Harvard graduate school...
Although they have only received notification of their victory from Putnam and not the contest's committee, the three winners were not surprised by their success...
...Putnam said yesterday that his grandfather started the competition 43 years ago to promote an intercollegiate contest outside of athletics. Math was selected as the arena "because it's fairly easy to correct," he added...