Word: grant-in-aid
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Because the money was raised "by methods possibly not conforming to conference rules," the University of Southern California was ordered to return to an unnamed donor a $25,000 "grant-in-aid" contribution. Letting ineligible students play in conference games cost the Trojans...
...special committee headed by Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, yesterday proposed a state aid plan for Massachusetts libraries. The group recommended a combined grant-in-aid system to help existing libriries, and expansion of regional libraries with the assistance of state funds. Governor Herter, who appointed the committee, referred the report to the Massachusetts legislature...
...laid 22,000 sections of concrete-lined steel pipe, each weighing ten tons, and built seven pumping stations and three large reservoirs. The U.S. sent technical aid, most of the tools, and almost all the $24,750,000 required for financing: $4,500,000 as a direct U.S. grant-in-aid, another $9,350,000 indirectly in counterpart funds, the remainder in private funds...
...report also suggested the need for a small discretionary fund which could be used as a grant-in-aid is graduate students for certain types of expenses involved in their research. Although not exceeding $100 per person the grants would fill, the report said, "a genuine need for which no provision can be normally made now," unless a student becomes attached to a senior faculty member's own research project...
...resigning his post this summer in order to go back to full-time teaching as a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, also gave full approval to a third recommendation of the Committee: a small discretionary fund at the disposal of each department for use as a grant-in-aid to graduate students for certain out-of-pocket expense involved in their research. As an example, Rogers cited the cost of micro-filming manuscripts, or travel