Sizar
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A sizar was one of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, were exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions.
Part of this entry comes from The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay; other parts are uncited.
