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Updated: June 17, 2025
You are all familiar with the truism that a soldier must learn to obey before he is fit for command. In much the same way, I fancy, the plebe must travel a rough road before he is thoroughly broken in and fitted to enjoy the delights of full equality and recognition with upper class men. "We are no more put upon than was every present upper class man during his first year here.
In his first year the poor "plebe" has so bewilderingly much to learn that he simply couldn't spare any time for the cultivation of the graces of the ballroom. In his first year, he has dancing lessons, but that is all that comes his way. Greg Holmes came to Prescott with a wistful, rather sad face. "How are you coming on, Dick?" Greg asked. "Meaning what?"
Merriwell had been touched very few times with Bascomb's left, for he had constantly been on the guard for any blow that might come from that point, and he had thumped the big plebe most aggravatingly all through the affair.
There were times in his early cadet days when he was suspected of having an ugly temper, and perhaps with reason. Exasperated at some prank played at his expense by a little "yearling" toward the close of his first the "plebe" encampment, Loring actually kicked the offender out of his tent.
In the presence of all plebes the yearlings and other upper class men keep themselves loftily apart, except when compelled to drill the plebes or perform other military or other official duties with plebes. The plebe, old or new, is still but a "beast" a being unfitted for intimate contact with upper class men. The plebe is not an outcast.
Any cadet who utters a lie, and is detected in it, is ostracized as being unfit for the company of gentlemen. So, when Dick's prompt denial came, Anstey believed, as he was obliged to do. "It was a plebe, Mace," continued Dick. "I'll have all but his life, then!" cried the southerner fiercely. "I wouldn't even think of it. The offender is only a cub," urged Dick.
As he stood in his doorway, looking up at the inscrutable stars, Cadet Captain Reynolds was taking his own lesson in patient waiting. "Thank you, sir," Dick replied in a low tone, then faced front again. That night another plebe was on post number three during the tour ending at midnight.
If so, the first or second classman usually drops a hint to a yearling, and the latter usually takes the plebe in hand. So far, our young friends had been yearlings just three days. They had not, as yet, exercised their new function of hazing any plebes. The first three days in camp had been too full of new and hard duties to permit of their doing so.
Fred Davis sprang to his feet, and rushed at Bascomb, who was cowering and shivering in the midst of the boys. "You killed him!" screamed the little plebe. "You're responsible for his death! It was murder!" "Thot's roight!" came from Barney Mulloy. Bascomb cowered and retreated before Davis. All his bullying spirit was gone, and he shivered when the little fellow declared it was murder.
Kramer started in at a lively gait, trying to bear the plebe down with swift, overpowering rushes and showers of blows. Some of these landed on the plebe's sturdy body, the whacks resounding. But the blows merely stirred Prescott's fighting blood within him.
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