There was formerly at Oxford an order similar to the sizars of Cambridge, called battelers (batteling having the same signification as sizing).
But as the sub-sizars had certain assistances in return for their humiliating services, and as the poverty of parents stood in need of such assistances for their sons, some of the sizars undertook the same offices for the same advantages.
As you know, in those days sizars had to wear a different dress from the commoners.
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.
Several times in this book you have heard of sizars and commoners, stupid distinctions which are happily now done away with.
Brogten to his companion; "the sizars are getting on.
The sizars are, by birth and education, invariably, so far as I know, the sons of gentlemen, and perhaps most often of clergymen whose means prevent them from bearing unassisted the heavy burden of University expenses.
After a short time many of these sizars become scholars, and eventually a large number of them win for themselves the honours of a fellowship.
The sizars at Saint Werner's do not dine at the same hour as the rest of the undergraduates, but the hour after, and their dinner consists of the dishes which have previously figured on the Fellows' table.
Every college contained some of them, but their headquarters were at Caius, whither they were attracted by Mr Clayton who was at that time senior tutor, and among the sizars of St John's.
As I have said, this one opportunity only was given to Sizars (Pensioners having always two opportunities and sometimes three), and it is necessary to be a Scholar in order to be competent to be a candidate for a Fellowship.
The Sizars dined after all the rest; their dinner usually began soon after 4.
I had been entered a Sizar, but as the list of Foundation Sizars was full, my dinners in Hall were paid for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sizars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
