sizar

He entered college as a sizar, that is, in return for doing the work of a servant he received free board and lodging in his college.

or did he get a sizar's place at college, or escape to America, and earn honours by drawing blood from his foster-country?

[Footnote: His name should never be spelled with a c .] Born in London in 1552, the son of a clothmaker, Spenser past from the newly established Merchant Taylors' school to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar, or poor student, and during the customary seven years of residence took the degrees of B.

But it had an influence in placing obstacles in the way of her association with Mrs Gowan by making the Prunes and Prism school excessively polite to her, but not very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances.

Robert Burton was one of these sons of gentlemen, but as a younger son he depended for financial support upon opportunities available to scholars with limited means: Nigel Wheale describes how such men got by as "sizars or servitors, servants for dons or their richer contemporaries, or else with the support of scholarships" (37).

The existence of a third set of undergraduates called servitors at Oxford and sizars at Cambridge was again visually displayed when members of the college gathered together to eat: sizars and servitors waited at the tables of the fellows, fellow-commoners, and commoners or pensioners.