P.C.S. . . Previous condition of servitude. How a cadet earned his living when he had to work. […] A Plebe with a twenty inch chest and the physique of a canary bird always turns out to be a stevedore, while the horny handed Cro-Magnard with the twenty-four inch biceps invariably breaks down and confesses that he was a bric-a-brac mender in civil life.