On the other hand, playing the poor scholar wouldn't have been the best choice either, it seemed to me.

I am only a poor scholar, and my verses are not worthy of being shared in company.

He was a poor scholar, teased by his peers.

Her parents were against the match because they thought Dad was a poor scholar.

As a boy he was a poor scholar but a very keen sportsman.

He bought over 50,000 books on Confucianism and the poor scholars were free to read them.

The poor scholars, boys selected on merit from local song schools, were to receive a daily meal during term times.

These were founded as charitable institutions to enable poor scholars to attend the University.

A poor scholar, he left school at fifteen to work in his father's Brighton counting house.

This poor scholar has already gone on record as a disbeliever.