| Description | Bound volume containing issues 52-54 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 11: No.52, Dec 1918. Artwork - "Reconstruction - And Now? Let Us Get On With the Washing!". Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour (including Lieut. Noel Felix Perris, Royal Air Force, Private Robert Alban Burch, 1 - 6th Stafford Regiment, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Clinton William Garden, Royal Air Force, Rifleman Robert Charles Pound, 12th London Regiment (Rangers); The Passing, July 20th 1918 (H. Huntsman); D.S.R.C. 1918-19; Memories; Day Students' Engineering Society, Session 1918-19; Photo of Technical College Football Team 1918-19; Domestic Science Dept. Debating Society; Hockey Club; Domestic Science Training Dept.(appointments); Hygiene Department (appointments); Physical Training College; Physical Training College - Tennis Tournament (at the Polytechnic Ground, Herne Hill); The Anatomical Nightmare of the Physical Trainer; Chemical Department; U.S.R.C.; Camp, 1918 (describes experiences of some students who went to a flax-pulling camp at Barwick Park, Yeovil, in the summer); The World is a Peacock and Morocco is the Tail Thereof; Living in Rugby: (or a few tips to future B.T.H'ers); "On The Land" (poem); Advertisement for "Moorgate" stylos.
Volume 11: No.53, Apr 1919. Dr Newman - An Appreciation (mentions the resignation of the principal); Articles include: Editorial; Roll of Honour (Lieut. Gerald Clifton Woolven, Royal Artillery Field), Sergt. James Paul Bennett (M. M. Belgian Croix de Guerre, Royal Engineers), Second Lieut. Robert Edward Gardiner, Royal Garrison Artillery), Lance-Corporal Albert Reginald Myers, 2nd Bedfordshires (att. 54th Trench Mortar Battery); D.S.R.C.; University of London (Students' Representative Council); Domestic Science Debating Society; Domestic Science Training Dept. (appointments); Chemical Dept.; Hygiene Dept. (The Milk Problem and details of visits); Hygiene Dept. (Recent Successes); Physical Training College; Death of Private David. H. Allen; Games; Correspondence; Engineering Society (includes visits); Cricket; Debating Society; The Admirable Crichton; The Relation of Posture to Character; Night; Extract from an Old Memoir; Clipped Wings (C.A.N. Capt., R.A.F.); Physiology Without Tears; Mechanics (with apologies to Mr Harvey); "Carry On"; In Examination the Foolish ask Questions that the Wise Cannot Answer"; C.M.B.; Aviation and Poetry; Evening.
Volume 11: No.54, Jul 1919. Articles include: Editorial; The Polytechnic and the War; Roll of Honour (full Roll of Honour); Military Awards; Chemistry Dept.; Domestic Science Training Dept.; Domestic Science Debating Society; Domestic Science Tennis Club; The Trials of A Literary Man; Hygiene Section; Physical Training College Notes (includes mention of a visit and talk from Cecil Sharp); Double page of side profile miniature portraits 'At the BACK of my notebook'; Physical Training College V. Battersea Polytechnic Cricket Club (women's team on the P.T.C. side against a men's cricket club); Engineering Society; Social - Second Term; Football Club; Characters of the Team; Cricket Club; Old Students' Association; Out-Door Fete; Debating Society; The Fete; DSRCC Report between February and June, 1919; Seein' Life (poem about going to war b A. Coster); Swimming Club; A Riddle; Trials; Conversazione; Small Advertisements; Battersea Polytechnic description of courses on offer; Advertisement for steam laundry and a coal and coke merchant. |