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V25,
Page 165
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIZAR , one of a class of students at a See also: college of See also:Cambridge University and at Trinity College, See also:Dublin, who, being persons of limited means, are received for See also:lower fees, and obtain See also:free See also:commons, lodgings or other assistance towards their See also:education during their terms of See also:residence. At See also:Oxford there was formerly a similar class, known as " Battelers" or " Batlers," who originally waited on the See also:Fellow of the College who had nominated them, and a still more humble class, the " servitors," who, perhaps, answered more to a " subsizar" at Cambridge. The name " sizar " is to be connected with the " sizes" or " sizings" (" See also:size" being a shortened See also:form of " See also:assize "), that is the specified portions of See also:food and drink issued at a fixed See also:price from the See also:buttery of the college; the sizar was so styled either because as one of his former duties he had to fetch the " sizes" for others, or because he obtained his own free. The See also:menial duties of " sizars " at Cambridge have See also:long become obsolete. End of Article: SIZARAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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