Crossword-Solution: SIZARS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

You'll find no sizars here, or servitors, Or other cruel distinctions, meant to draw A line 'twixt rich and poor; you'll find no tufts To mark nobility, except such tufts As indicate nobility of brain.

The sizars paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging; but they had to perform some menial services from which they have long been relieved.

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.

The _servitors_ of Oxford are the _sizars_ of Cambridge; and I believe the same changes [Footnote: These changes have been accomplished, according to my imperfect knowledge of the case, in two ways: first, by dispensing with the services whenever that could be done; and, secondly, by a wise discontinuance of the order itself in those colleges which were left to their own choice in this matter.] have taken place in both.