| Description | Bound volume containing issues 1-6 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Students' Representative Councils. Dates and contents of issues are summarised below:
Volume 1: No.1, July 1908. Articles include: Letter to the students from the principle; Editorial; Student Representitive Council; Inter-Polytechnic Sports; The Athletic Sports; Exhibition of Students' Work; SRC Soirée; Lawn Tennis Club; Cycling Club; Swimming Club; Cricket Club; Football Club; Day Students' Engineering Society; The Debating Society of the Domestic Economy Training Department; Men's Gymnasium; Technical College; Women's Gymnastic Display; "An Anxious Tech" letter to editor; Facts and Fancies; The Unexpected; Public Speaking; Old Scholars' Club Officials.
Volume 1: No.2, Nov 1908. Articles include: Editorial; Football club; Hockey Club; Tennis Club; The Literary, Debating and Dramatic society; Swimming club; Chess club; Day Students' Engineering Society; Athletic Sports; Sports Concert; Polytechnic Extensions; The Library; Sketch Club Exhibition of Work; Domestic Economy Debating Society; Science As Applied to Domestic Training; Elocution Under Difficulties; Correspondence; Facts and Fancies; Imagination in History; A Rude Awakening; Suffragette and Sufferer; Old Scholars' Club.
Volume 1: No.3, Feb 1909. Articles include: Editorial; To All and Sundry; Hockey Club; Badminton Club; Tennis Club; Football Club; Day Students' Engineering Society & Social; Jottings; Old Students' Association; The Music Department; Building Extensions; Domestic Economy Training Dept.; A B.P. at the Paint & Varnish Society; Entertainment by the Elocution Class; La Foire de Sainte Memoire; A Short Yachting Cruise; Southwark Cathedral; The Welshman; Correspondence.
Volume 1: No.4, Apr 1909. Articles include: Editorial; Conversazione; Girls' Secondary Day School Exhibits; Annual Prize Distribution; Old Students' Association; Engineering Supplement (London's Water Supply; Scientific Jottings); Old Students' Association; Annual Gymnastics Competition; Inter-Polytechnic Drill Competition; Day Students' Engineering Society; Clubs & Societies; Domestic Economy Department; The Russell Prize; Art School Sketch Club; A Modern Masterpiece; Side-lights on the Author of the "Vicar of Wakefield";
Volume 1: No.5, May 1909. Articles include: Editorial; Births and Marriages; The Russell Prize; Domestic Economy Training Scholarship; The Late Mr J. P. Attwater (Head of Music Dept.); Clubs & Societies [Football, Tennis, Swimming, Cycling, Engineering Soc, Building Students' Association, Old Students' Association, Athletic Sports, Social given by the Elocution Classes]; Engineering Supplement; Birmingham Water Supply; Men's Gymnastics Display; She Stoops To Conquer; Side-lights on Oliver Goldsmith; Swinburne;
Volume 1: No.6, July 1909. Articles include: Editorial; General Notices; Teaching the Domestic Arts; Course of Training for Health Visitors and School Nurses; Course of Training for Sanitary Inspectors; Clubs & Societies [Engineering society; Badminton; Swimming; Lawn Tennis; Cycling; Hockey; Literary and Debating Soc]; Old Students' Association Bazaar; General Meeting of the Old Students' Association; Sports [Athletic Sports; Inter-Polytechnic Sports; Women's Gymnastic Display]; Modern Illustration; A Visit to a Cornish Tin Mine; A Line For Chemical Research; and Correspondence. |