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Football "scholarships" are not the bootstrapping grants-in-aid portrayed in sports mythology; they are semester-to-semester contracts at the almost sole discretion of the coaches.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2021

The history of grants-in-aid goes back more than 200 years, to the period before the Constitution.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

The schools don’t want it, but four-year athletic grants-in-aid are now permissible.

From Slate • May 17, 2012

We need to reinvent federal grants-in-aid to states, drain the federal for-profit contracting swamps and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.

From Washington Post

During 1904-1905, 213 schools received grants-in-aid amounting to �23,500, the average cost per scholar being a little over �1.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various