SIZAR  , one of a class of students at a See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge University and at Trinity College, See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, who, being persons of limited means, are received for See also:

• LOWER

lower fees, and obtain See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• COMMONS

commons, lodgings or other assistance towards their See also:

• EDUCATION

education during their terms of See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence . At See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford there was formerly a similar class, known as " Battelers" or " Batlers," who originally waited on the See also:

• FELLOW

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

size" being a shortened See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " See also:

• ASSIZE

assize "), that is the specified portions of See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food and drink issued at a fixed See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price from the See also:

• BUTTERY (from O. Fr. boterie, Late Lat. botaria, a place where liquor is stored, from butta, a cask)

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

menial duties of " sizars " at Cambridge have See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long become obsolete .