“ The name “sizar” is to be connected with the “sizes” or “sizings” (“size” being a shortened form of “assize”) , that is the specified portions of food and drink issued at a fixed price from the 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 menial duties of “sizars” at Cambridge have long become obsolete. ”