| Description | Bound volume containing issues 61-63 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 14: No.61, Dec 1921. Advert for the Educational Supply Agency and photograph of the new war memorial; Articles include: War Memorial (unveiled by Canon Curtis); Editorial (mentions prize awarded for most inspirational battle cry, and news that the Poly would soon gain a cinematograph machine for educational topic viewings); Engineering Society; The Complete Polytechnist; Experiment (a poem); Our Philosopher in the Refresh; Microscopy as a Hobby; Armistice Night Revel; The Football Club; Illustration (Battersea Poly XIs V. St Mark's and St Aubyn's); Paper Making; The Camera Club; The Day Students' Representative Council; D.S.R.C. Annual Report, Season 1920-21; Harold Hen Has Laid Another Egg; Professor Dizziboi's Christmas; A Polytechnic Science Course (by Professor Zmnski, F.R.S., etc.); New Nursery Rhymes (Collected and Arranged by Professor Dizziboi); The Chess Club; Chess for Beginners; The OTC Camp at Birchington; The Cricket Club; Domestic Science Hockey Club; Answers to Correspondents; Suggested New Department for the Poly.; The Teacher's Grace; Battersea Polytechnic Public Health Association (Annual Report); "The Private Secretary"; Debating Society; Things People Say; Mr Spooner on Life's Perversities; The Poly. War Cry; Domestic Science (appointments); Lines for B.P. Glee Club; Things Heard; Things We Want to Know; "I Thought"; New Words for Old Mottoes; This Year's Examination Successes; Domestic Science Department (News in Brief); Domestic Science Debating Society; Department of Hygiene and Public Health (examination successes and appointments); Advert for The Honours College of Private Tuition; Cricket Club (balance sheet); Public Health Association (balance sheet).
Volume 14: No.62, Mar 1922. Illustration - "The Sunspots"; Articles include: Editorial; The Football Club; Correspondence; A Christmas Phantasy; Further Unpublished Transactions of the Physics Society; Small Advertisements; Elegy Written in a Poly. Courtyard (with apologies to Gray); Picked from Parnassus; Our £1000 Insurance; Some Modern Microbes; "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" (performance of); Jottings from the Chemical Colloquium; A Cockney Coster; Choosing the Rooms; Women Day Students' Hockey Club; My Bicycle; Note on the Perturbations of Orbits Due to the Influence of Sun Spots; Perverted Shakespeare; A Poet's Last Effort; "Der Poltergeist" - from an ancient diary discovered (in an empty locker) by Prof. Zmnski, F.R.S. etc.); Chess Club; "The Sunspots" (performance); Battersea Polytechnic Public Health Association; New Nursery Rhymes; A New Chemical Dictionary (Unrevised and Up-too-late); Listening and Listeners (by Prof. Dizziboi); Domestic Science Department (appointments and news in brief); Interviews; Domestic Science Debating Society; Interesting Inventions (By our Olympic Correspondent); Snippets; A Few Practical Hints on Gardening; More Perversities by Mr Spooner; Department of Hygiene and Public Health (appointments and examination successes).
Volume 14: No.63, Jul 1922. Illustration - Staff V. Students (Cricket); Articles include: Editorial; Cricket Club; Sidelights on Physical Chemistry; Annual Sports; London University Annual Sports; Scientific Cricket; Professional Piffle; Brighter Battersea; Staff V. Students Cricket Match (students won by 50 runs); "Men Call Me Poor" (by Gladys Head); Laboratory Games; Scientific Cookery, by Professor Zmnski, F.R.S., etc.; Small Advertisements; A Hymn to Pan (by Gladys Head); A Dissertation on Suet Pudding; Jibberings of an Unmitigated Ass; Swimming Club; Truant; Correspondence; From an Evening Student; Tennis Club; Thoughts of a Harassed Poly. "Finalist"; The Outcropping of the Unconscious; "Hobbies - As They Strike Others" (Some Reflections of a Quiet Mind); "Cherchez la Femme"; A Fragment; The Secret of the Best Seller; Domestic Science Department (News in Brief); The Domestic Science Social; Domestic Science Debating Society; Forgive and Forget (by Prof. Dizziboi); Three Days A-Wheel; Department of Hygiene and Public Health. |