| Description | Bound volume containing issues 55-57 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 12: No.55, Dec 1919. The Educational Supply Association advert; Illustrations (side profile miniature portraits); Articles include: Editorial; Our New Principle (Dr R. H. Pickard); New Members of Teaching Staff; Polytechnic War Fund; Chemistry Department (including visits); Literary and Debating Society; Anniversary of Armistice; U.S.R.C.; Old Students' Association; Small Advertisements; D.S.R.C. Report, 1919-1920; Domestic Science Training College (list of appointments); Domestic Science Debating Society; Domestic Science Hockey Club; Hygiene Dept.; On Being Humorous; Engineering Society; General Introductory Dept. (Retirement of Miss E. Robinson, LL.A); A Lament; Our Sartorial Column (Autumn Modes In Men's Tailoring. By "The Mad Hatter"); Day Students' Football Club; From the Mouths of the Mighty; Cricket Club; Swimming Club; Dentists; Note of Lesson on Making Suet Pastry; "Eliza Comes to Stay"; Answers to Correspondents.
Volume 12: No.56, Mar 1920. Photograph of Dr R. H. Pickard (Principal of the Polytechnic); Articles include: Editorial; Conversazione; D.S.R.C. Report (mention of a proposal for a war memorial); Chemistry Colloquium; Collectors and Their Habits; The Debating Society; U.S.R.C.; Domestic Science Hockey Club; Domestic Science Debating Society; Domestic Science Training College; Two Surrey Churches (Reigate Church and Oakwood Hill, Horsham); Illustrations (side profile miniature portraits); Training College of Domestic Science (appointments made and changes of appointment); "Mice and Men"; Children's Christmas Party; New Books Reviewed; Engineering Society; Letters to the Editor (The Tribes of TTAB YLOP, That New "Gas"); Day Students' Football Club; Cricket Club; Extract from the "Daily Mail," April 1st, 2001; Some West End Street Names; The Horrors of Peace (by W. H. S. Boyd); A Night on the Cambrai Sector; A Thought for Every Day; Ten Little Domyites; Small Advertisements; Answers to Correspondents.
Volume 12: No.57, Jun 1920. Illustrations (side profile miniature portraits); Articles include: Editorial (mentions the first Athletic Sports Meeting since 1914); Our Principal (Dr Pickard); The University of London Students' Representative Council; From Clapham Common (a poem, by 'Totsy'); A Royal Visit (which did not actually happen - see Editor's note at the end!); Annual Athletic Meeting (at Stamford Bridge but it mentions that the new ground, near Merton Abbey, would be ready in the near future); The Sports Meeting; How to Pass Exams (by One Who Knows); Domestic Science Training College; Domestic Science Debating Society; The Club; Domestic Science Training College (News in a Nutshell, Old Students); The Corridor: A Fragment (in the latest style); Dept. of Hygiene and Public Health (appointments); Battersea Polytechnic Public Health Association; The Royal Visit "Hoax" (explanation behind article a few pages back and also mentions that there were royal visits - from the late Kind in 1891 and 1894, and from King George and Queen Mary in 1904); Double page of photos from the Athletic Sports day (including the Ladies' Suitcase Race); Our First Rag; The Debating Society; Nautical "Intelligence"; St Martin Ludgate (an old city church) by N. M. Towur; Cricket Club; Swimming Club; The Finger; Staff v Students Cricket Match (students won); The Musings of a Science Student; Chemistry Department; An Autobiography of a Piece of Chalk; The Tablets of O--ise, The Scribe; Water; Helpful Hints to the Hygiene Dept.; Football Club; Answers to Correspondents; Small Adverts. |