sizar
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When he was seventeen he was entered as a sizar at Trinity College, Dublin, under the patronage of Dr Wiseman, bishop of Dromore.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
His family was poor, and the register of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, testifies to his entry as sizar on the 18th of May 1632.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Among other duties, a sizar had, with some of the scholars, to wait at table, a service not abolished until 6th May 1786.
From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner, and in return for duties of a somewhat menial character passed through his College course on reduced terms.
From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
He was educated at Merchant Taylor's school, and in 1569 went to Cambridge University, where he entered Pembroke Hall as a sizar.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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