![]() About half of every freshman class drops out by the end of the year. ![]() Every year the freshman class is brutalized for the entirety of their "plebe year" by The Cadre, a group of upperclassmen specifically designated to make their lives hell. In particular, it has an extremely brutal hazing ritual. The Institute is a very strictly run military institution, which often rubs the irreverent Will the wrong way. ![]() The main character, Will McLean, narrates the novel as himself looking back on his time at the Institute, beginning with the start of his senior year, then flashing back to his freshman (or "plebe") year, and finally finishing out with the rest of senior year. ![]() The Lords of Discipline is a 1980 novel by Pat Conroy about a young man's experiences at a South Carolina military college called the Institute ( loosely based on Charleston's real life military college, the Citadel) in the 1960s. ![]()
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