All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.

My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

"But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
"If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.

“You went to The Citadel?” her mother chimed in. “I’ve heard so many great things about that institution. Did you go through a plebe year?” I told her I did and that we called it the knob year because freshman cadets had to shave their heads bald to resemble the butt end of a door knob and keep it that way for an entire ten months while going through the process of being broken down, only to be built back up.

Plebe

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Noun

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