Sentence:  There are to this day fellow-<WSD>commoners</WSD> at Queens , and surely such a distinguished <WSD>commoner</WSD> as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.