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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
		Elizabeth Lowell Putnam was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in the late 19th century, the daughter of Mr.
		Elizabeth grew up on her families 10 acre estate, which later be called Sevenels for the seven (7) Lowells which comprised her family, including her brothers Abbott Lawrence and Percival and her sister Amy Lowell.
		In 1888, Elizabeth married her third cousin and family lawyer William Putnam, Senior.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Elizabeth_Lowell_Putnam (175 words)

	Putnam Competition General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Lowell Putnam had a profound conviction in the value of organized team competition in regular college studies.
		Putnam, a member of the Harvard class of 1882, wrote an article for the December 1921 issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine in which he described the merits of an intellectual competition.
		Putnam's death in 1935 that the examination assumed its present form and was placed under the administration of the Mathematical Association of America.
	www.math.vt.edu /events/competitions/putnam-info.html (485 words)

	Abbott Lawrence Lowell Summary
		Lowell was active in university affairs and, on the retirement of Charles W. Eliot in 1909, was chosen president of Harvard, serving until 1933.
		Lowell was also involved in the execution of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, which many later observers have seen as a miscarriage of justice.
		Lowell opposed Brandeis despite the fact that he was regarded as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the nation, having graduated from Harvard Law School with the strongest academic record in the school's history.
	www.bookrags.com /Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell (1472 words)

	Alfred University : News
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthy rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
		William Lowell Putnam, a member of the Harvard class of 1882, wrote an article for the December issue of the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine in which he described the merits of an intellectual intercollegiate competition.
		Putnam’s death in 1935 that the examination assumed its current form and was placed under the administration of the Mathematical Association of America.
	www.alfred.edu /pressreleases/viewrelease.cfm?ID=3275 (490 words)

	Putnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.tomcoconversions.com /tools/Putnam (1949 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - AoPSWiki
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a highly challenging, proof-oriented mathematics competition for undergraduate students in North America.
		Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize- The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize will be awarded periodically to a woman whose performance in the competition has been deemed particularly meritorious.
		Note that the Putnam Fellows for any given year are listed in alphabetical order, whereas the top-scoring teams are listed in their order of finish.
	www.artofproblemsolving.com /Wiki/index.php/Putnam_Exam (358 words)

	60th Putnam brochure
		The competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
		Putnam, a member of the Harvard class of 1882, wrote an article for the December 1921 issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine in which he described the merits of an intellectual intercollegiate competition.
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize will be awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious.
	www.mines.edu /fs_home/dlarue/putnam/brochure/60th-putnam-brochure.html (1088 words)

	First Sixty-Six Years of the Putnam Competition, The American Mathematical Monthly, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The William Lowell Putnam Competition is held annually for the top undergraduate mathematics students in the United States and Canada.
		The first Putnam competition took place in 1938, but its genesis was a math competition held in 1933 between ten Harvard students and ten students from the United States Military Academy at West Point [I].
		That competition was sponsored by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in honor of her late husband William Lowell Putnam, who was a member of the Harvard class of 1882.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3742/is_200410/ai_n9471680 (746 words)

	The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the most famous North American college-level math contest, is administered each year on the first Saturday of December.
		The trustees of the Putnam Fund also award at Harvard University the annual William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship to one of the Putnam Fellows.
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize is awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious.
	users.etown.edu /d/doytchinovb/putnam/index.html (585 words)

	Students Place in Putnam Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Putnam math exam winners Thomas A. Weston '96, Ruth A. Britto-Pacumio '96, Henry L. Cohn '95, Sergey M. Ioffe '97, and Frederico Ardilla '98.
		In addition, Ruth Britto-Pacumio '96 became the first MIT student to win the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, awarded to the highest scoring female each year.
		Britto-Pacumio said the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award was "not as meaningful to me as the honorable mention because of the very low numbers of women who take the test." Last year the prize was not awarded due to low participation.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V115/N17/putnam.17n.html (399 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Lowell Putnam
		Thus, an Observatory expedition and possibly a permanent move to South America was postponed, effectively establishing the Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
		Putnam died in June 1923, aged around 61, during Constance Lowell's attempt to contest Percival's will.
		In 1927, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam established the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund in order to begin a college-level mathematics competition, the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam (479 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
		Elizabeth was the sister of Percival Lowell, the astronomer who founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who became President of Harvard, and Amy Lowell, who became a famous poet.
		His wife Elizabeth and her brother Abbott Lawrence Lowell, at that time President of Harvard, both shared Putnam's ideas about education and Elizabeth Putnam made provision in her will to created a trust fund known as the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund.
		Elizabeth Putnam died in 1935 but moves had been made to begin competitions before her death.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Extras/Putnam_competition.html (1262 words)

	University of Michigan
		The W.L. Putnam Mathematical Competition began in 1938, because William Lowell Putnam believed in the value of organized team competition in college studies.
		Putnam, a member of the Harvard class of 1882, wrote an article in the December 1921 issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine describing the merits of an intellectual intercollegiate competition.
		Putnam's death in 1935, the examination was administered by the Mathematical Association of America.
	www.umich.edu /news/index.html?Releases/2000/Mar00/r033100c (410 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students, awarding scholarships and cash prizes ranging from $250 to $2,500 for the top students and $5,000 to $25,000 for the top schools.
		The competition was funded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam (Harvard 1882), who while alive was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition.
		One of them is also awarded the William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship of $12,000 plus tuition for graduate study at Harvard University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition (1018 words)

	EWU \| William Lowell Putnam Math Contest
		The 67th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be held on a Saturday in December.
		We will begin soon to prepare a team for the competition, please contact the Putnam Team Coordinator if you are interested.
		The trustees of the Putnam Fund also will award at Harvard University or at Radcliffe College the annual William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship to one of the Putnam Fellows.
	www.ewu.edu /x8069.xml (928 words)

	Putnam Exam
		The Skidmore College Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science participates in the annual William L. Putnam Mathematical Competition, commonly known as the Putnam Exam.
		The Putnam Exam is a notoriously challenging exam consisting of 12 problems (6 in the morning session, 6 in the afternoon) which go beyond what is typically covered in a classroom.
		In addition, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize will be awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Putnam Exam has been deemed particularly meritorious.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/mcs/mcs-home/MCS/events/putnam_exam.htm (254 words)

	William Lowell Putnam
		William Lowell Putnam II William Lowell Putnam II (more commonly known as William Putnam, Senior) was born on November 22, 1861.
		Even before his marriage to Percival's sister Elizabeth Lowell in 1888, Putnam (who was also Percival's third cousin) handled a large part of the Lowell family's finances, thus leaving Augustus Laurence Lowell and Percival Lowell free to pursue their interests in science and culture.
		Thus, an Observatory expedition and possibly a permanent move to South America was postponed, effectively establishing the Observatory in Flagstaff.
	www.lowell.edu /Research/library/paper/wl_putnam.html (431 words)

	Duke Math News
		Elizabeth Ayer '96, a math and computer science student, was one of about ten students nationwide to win the prestigious Churchill Scholarship.
		Elizabeth is an active member of the mathematical community, having served as the features editor for Vertices, the Duke science magazine, and co-founder of the Logic Club.
		The 56th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition was held on Saturday, December 2, 1995.
	www.math.duke.edu /math_news/May96/May96.html (1519 words)

	Problem Solving
		This is the syllabus for the practice sessions for the Fall 2003 ACM Programming Contest and Fall 2003 William Lowell Putnam Competition.
		This is not a formal course, but if you hope to do well in either the ACM Programming Contest or the Putnam Competition you will need to work at the practices and assignments at least as hard as if it were a course, or even harder.
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize was established in 1992 to be 'awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious'.
	www.bernstein-plus-sons.com /.dowling/Problem_Solving (800 words)

	SMS: Putnam Competititon
		The William Lowell Putnam competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
		The first competition supported by this fund was in the field of English and a few years later a second competition was held in mathematics.
		James Marengo is the faculty advisor to students taking the exam and the Department thanks him for an outstanding job.
	www.math.rit.edu /Students/putnam.html (192 words)

	Math March Madness — Highlights from the 2005 Putnam Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sixty-sixth annual Putnam competition, held in December 2005, had 3545 participants from 500 institutions and 395 teams.
		Alison Miller won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize as the highest finishing woman and became the first woman ever to be a member of the winning team.
		A comprehensive up-to-date history of the Putnam competition is available at http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/putnam05.pdf.
	www.maa.org /news/052306marchmadness.html (464 words)

	CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENTS EXCEL IN THE INTERNATIONAL PUTNAM COMPETITION
		In alphabetical order, the universities placing 6th through 10th are: the University of British Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University and Stanford University.
		The top six students are declared Putnam Fellows and three are from Canadian universities: Sabin Cautis (University of Waterloo), Derek Kisman (University of Waterloo) and Colin Percival (Simon Fraser University).
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize for the top female score was won by Wai Ling Yee (University of Waterloo).
	www.camel.math.ca /Communiques/2000/putnam99.html (324 words)

	Duke News Briefs: April 4, 2003
		Senior Melanie Wood led a team of three Duke students to third place in the prestigious William Lowell Putnam mathematical competition that was held in December.
		For her ranking among the top 5 of the record 3,349 participants from 476 institutions in the United States and Canada, Wood was named a Putnam Fellow, the first U.S. born woman to accomplish this feat.
		Wood was also awarded the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam prize for the second year in a row as the top scorer among female participants.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2003/04/briefs040403.html (789 words)

	Putnam Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Math Deptartment has made a commitment to field competitive teams in the annual William L. Putnam Mathematical Competition, or Putnam Exam.
		The Putnam Exam is a notoriously challenging exam consisting of 12 mind-numbing problems, 6 in the morning session and 6 in the afternoon.
		The Putnam is usually held on the first Saturday in December.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~math/Gary/putnam.html (255 words)

	Problem Solving and the Putnam Competition
		The Putnam Exam (officially known as the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition) is a very challenging, six-hour mathematics exam taken by about 3,600 undergraduates in the United States and Canada each year.
		William Lowell Putnam, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1882, believed strongly in the value of academic competitions.
		Richard Stanley's Proposed Putnam Problems -- from when he was on the committee that wrote the exam.
	www.math.hmc.edu /putnam (858 words)

	Putnam Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Vanderbilt Dept. of Mathematics participates in the annual William L. Putnam Mathematical Competition, a prestigious math contest for undergraduate college students in the US and Canada, held each year on the first Saturday in December.
		The Putnam Exam problems require some thought and ingenuity to solve, and usually cannot be done just by textbook application of various recipes taught in other courses.
		The names of the top 500 finishers (from an estimated 4,000 contestants) are sent to all participating institutions.
	www.math.vanderbilt.edu /~rnicoara/putnam.html (183 words)

	Putnam Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(The Putnam Exam announcement brochure is published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
		Click here for information about the original competition between Harvard and the US Military Academy at West Point in 1933 which was the genesis of the Putnam exam.
		More information on the Putnam Exam can be found two articles in the May 1965 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly, which also regularly publishes the questions on the Putnam Exam.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/mcs/pages/putnam.htm (430 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Newsmakers
		A co-winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in medicine for his groundbreaking research of the visual cortex, Hubel (who was born in Windsor, Ontario) will join four other health scientists to be inducted into the hall of fame for "innovation and dedication to advancing the well-being of people everywhere."
		Held Dec. 3, 2005, on campuses throughout North America, the results for the prestigious competition, administered by the Mathematical Association of America, were announced at the beginning of April.
		Finishing in the top 16 were Steven Byrnes '07 and Alison Miller, who was also awarded the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam prize for her achievements in the competition.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2006/04.13/06-newsmakers.html (342 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
		The official William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition site at Santa Clara University.
		The West Point early history of the Putnam.
		Putnam 1994 problems and solutions at the MathPro web site.
	math.pepperdine.edu /putnam.html (829 words)

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