"But, in a trick of this kind, I couldn't get any satisfaction out of anyone else hammering the b.j.beast who put up such a tumble for me." "I'm thinking the scrap committee may interfere with your plans," rejoined Atwater, shaking his head.

"We don't want fighting to degenerate into the appearance of bullying oppression of beasts." "I'll have to abide by the decision of the scrap committee, of course," admitted Butler.

"But I hope the fellows won't interfere." Cadet Corporal Atwater promptly called the scrap committee together.

Many newspaper writers, through ignorance, have condemned the existence of a scrap committee at West Point, claiming that it foments fights.

The truth is that the scrap committee is a court of honor, formed for adjusting nice questions, and for preventing unfair fighting.
Cadet Butler was summoned before the scrap committee, and stated his case.