| Description | Bound volume containing issues 58-60 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 13: No.58, Dec 1920. Illustration "The Babe and the Ogre (War Matriculation, 1920); Articles include: Editorial; Promotion of Mr John Wilson; Presentation to Mr Wilson; Head of the Chemistry Department (Dr Joseph Kenyon appointed); Military Medal for Mr G. F. Biggs; Hiawatha's Christmas Pudding (A Story for Christmas); The Chemistry Department; The Pharmacy Sub-Department; Recent Research Work by Staff and Students of the Polytechnic (including the Physics Dept., Mechanical Engineering Dept. - New Type of Prime Mover, and Chemistry Dept.); Lines to a Famous Comedian; Things People Say; Things We Want to Know; Domestic Science Training College - News in Brief (including appointments); The Cook's Corner; Extract from a Session; Battersea Polytechnic Public Health Association; Department for Hygiene and Public Health (appointments gained); Hygiene Helps? (And Hindrances) A Few Sample Recipes; Athletic Sports, 1920; The Day Students' Representative Council; War Memorial; Day Students' Concert; Domestic Science Debating Society; Visit to the Houses of Parliament; "Happy-Go-Lucky"; The Polytechnic Women's Hockey Club; Football Notes, 1920-1921; A New Religion; Wherefore Are Ye Possessed of Tongues; Staff V Students Football Match; The Versatility of Our Staff; The Club; Evening Students' Representative Council; The "Refresh" - A Dream; Journeys in India; Exams: Or the Good and Bad Students. (After William Shakespeare); On Giving Christmas Presents. Some Seasonable Advice (by Professor Dizziboi);
Volume 13: No.59, Mar 1921. Illustrations (side profile miniature portraits); Articles include: Editorial; On the Lighter Side of Life; Day Students' Representative Council; The Autobiography of a Chalk-Box; The First Dance; The Club; Unpublished Transactions of the Physics Society; Football Club; Footergrams; Femina; The Debating Society; The Tennis Club Annual Meeting; The Chess Club; Annual Reunion of Domestic Science Training College; Elementary Etiquette; Domestic Science Debating Society; Ants as Spring Cleaners; On the Chemistry Department; Illustration - "Who Dared to Mention Sinks?"; Domestic Science Training College; Some Idle Thoughts of a Chemist; Things We Want to Know; Things People Say; Battersea Polytechnic Women Students' Sports Club; Hockey Club Notes (Indoor Sports and List of Events); Applied Mathematics; On Engineers; Was Shakespeare Educated at the Polytechnic? By Professor Dizziboi; A Dissertation Upon Umbrellas (From "The Vapourings of a Fool") - Part 1, Umbrellas & Part II, Advice to Umbrella Users; Department of Hygiene and Public Health (includes appointments gained); Cricket Club.
Volume 13: No.60, Jun 1921. Illustration - "The Mechanical Art as applied to 'Setling Up"; Articles include: Editorial; Impressions of Famous Colleges (No. 1 of this interesting series by "Quarante") - The Kushey Technical College; Plays of To-Day (By Our Dramatic Critic); Should Women Smoke?; New Nursery Rhymes (Collected and Arranged by Professor Dizziboi); The Sports-Day Rag; Domestic Science Debating Society; War Memorial Committee; Answers to Correspondents; Tennis Club; The Engineering Society; A Blessed Journey; The Camera Club; Domestic Science Department (News in Brief) and Ladies Cricket Club; Stripes and the Shikaree; Things People Say; Things We Want to Know; Square Pegs in Round Holes; The Sports Meeting; Further Unpublished Transactions of the Physics Society; Darkness and Dawn; The Institute of Electrical Engineers (Students' Section); How to Obtain a Position After Leaving The Polytechnic; Professor Dizziboi on Obtaining an Appointment (Interview with Our Special Correspondent); Department of Hygiene and Public Health; "Unborn Today and Dead Yesterday..."; Ode to Battersea Polytechnic; The Cricket Club; My Experience at a Welfare Centre; The League of Nations; Visit to Peak Frean's Biscuit Factory; Competition. |