sizar

He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen.

Let the poor sizar toil over musty books; he will have a race horse.

Let me see; the next time I heard of him was when he attempted to enter college as a sizar, and failed.

Am I a poor sizar of Trinity, whose hard struggle with poverty has caught your sympathy?

In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained.