sizars

The unlucky boys who have no tassels to their caps, are called sizars — SERVITORS at Oxford — (a very pretty and gentlemanlike title).

The Book of Snobs 2006

The unlucky boys who have no tassels to their caps, are called sizars -- SERVITORS at Oxford -- (a very pretty and gentlemanlike title).

The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

"The unlucky boys who have no tassels to their caps, are called sizars -- servitors at Oxford -- (a very pretty and gentlemanlike title).

English Literature for Boys and Girls

And I built in Urbs in Rure, for minne elskede, my shiny brows, under astrolobe from my upservatory, an erd-closet with showne ejector wherewithin to be squatquit in most covenience from her sabbath needs, when open noise should stilled be: did not I festfix with mortarboard my unniversiries, wholly rational and gottalike, sophister agen sorefister, life sizars all?

Finnegans Wake 2006

At Cambridge the sizars, and at Oxford the servitors, form the lowest grade of students.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

This custom has long since been discontinued; nor are the sizars of

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

And this poverty they could not hide, for the sizars were obliged to wear a different cap and gown from that of the gentlemen commoners.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

As you know, in those days sizars had to wear a different dress from the commoners.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

Several times in this book you have heard of sizars and commoners, stupid distinctions which are happily now done away with.

English Literature for Boys and Girls

These hostels, of which Fuller enumerates thirty-four, continued to exist up to, and after, the foundation of the first colleges, which were originally composed only of the master, fellows, and poor scholars, or sizars, who paid for their education by performing menial work.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913