| Description | Bound volume containing issues 67-69 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 16: No.67 Dec 1923. Adverts. Photo - cricket team (The 1st XI - opponents of the staff team); Articles include: Editorial; The Perfect Student (apologies to Mr Kipling); Annual Report of the Battersea and Chelsea Polytechnics' Athletic Ground Joint Committee for the opening period up to July 31st, 1923, to the Governing Bodies (includes details of use in winter - football, rugby, hockey, lacrosse and netball and in summer - cricket and tennis); To a Blackberry (poem);Sketch Club; A Smile (poem); illustration - Rugger V Soccer; Impressions of Paris; Professional Piffle; Boxing Club; The Cricket Club; To My Love (poem); photo - The Staff Cricket Team (which played the 1st, p1); The Education of the Future; Association F.C.; A Report on the Activities of the Association Football Club and the Cricket Club. Season 1922-1923; Camera Club; Thoughts for Today (Cleverness); In the Hills: an Allegory; Domestic Science Tennis; The Debating and Literary Society; Chess Club; Ode to a Lab. Boy (with apologies to Keats); Tennis Club; Humour; Men's Hockey Club; On Nothing (with apologies to Hilaire Belloc); Women's Hockey Club; The Romance of Chemistry; DSRC, 1922-23; R.F.C.; The Mocker-kin Swarth; The Engineering Society; The Storm; Domestic Science News in Brief; What to Write for the Mag.; The Institute of Electrical Engineers; Domestic Science Debating Club; A Tram Journey; D.S.R.C. Report, 1923-4; Examination Successes in the University of London; Battersea Polytechnic Domestic Science Training College (appointments); Dept. of Hygiene and Public Health (appointments); Battersea Polytechnic Social and Athletic Work(balance sheet, 31st July 1923); Battersea and Chelsea Polytechnics Joint Athletics Ground (balance sheet, 31st July 1923); Dept. of Hygiene and Public Health.
Volume 16: No.68 Mar 1924. Adverts. Illustration - "All the Fun of the Fair", B.P. Boxing Club; Articles include: Editorial; Correspondence; Siam; Lines Written in Dejection; Marriage (Miss I.V. Higham and is now Mrs Eric. C. Burden); Gilbert and Sullivan; Polytechnic Alphabet Up-to-Date; Middle-Class Life in a South German Town during 1922. By "English"; An Exciting Adventure; Manly Modesty (Bedigo Bartlemy); The Right to Strike; Hockey [Domestic Science]; Miss Sanger - Tributes from Staff and Students; Public Spirit; Account of the Hostels' Association; "Lucknow" (with photo inserts); The Bad Boy's Soliloquy; Honesty; Alice in Polyland; The Annual Re-union of Domestic Science Training College, held Jan 19, 1924; A Visit to the Temple Church; Cycling; Domestic Science Debating Society; Non-Residents Students' Hospitality; Adverts (including on to write for the Poly and win a Prize);
Volume 16: No.69 Jul 1924. Illustration - "Our Heroes: BPRC" (incidental music - Every nice girl loves a sailor); Articles include: Editorial; How to Win 10/~; Prize Competition; Hints on Lawn Tennis (by Joan W. Austin); University Exams-de-Luxe; An Apology; Illustration (Our Athletic Poly); Heard on May Morn. Freedom; Letters to the Editor; Ragging; Dartmoor Lullaby; Writing, in a nutshell; Illustration (A suggestion for obtaining the requisite heat, moisture and pressure); A Failure; Across a lonely moor" (poem); Music (poem); Professional Piffle; Things We Want to Know; A New Health Student - Visiting; That Afternoon and After; A Spring Morning; Photos [The Start of the 1/2 Mile and G.D. Hewett breaking the record for "Putting the Weight" (p18), Rest After Toil (p20) and The Women's Sack Race (p20)]; Club Reports and Social News (Cricket Club, Rowing Notes, Soccer Club, R.F.C.; Sketch Club; Chess Club; Camera Club; Engineering Society; Men's Hockey Club; Women's Hockey News; Domestic Science Debating Society; Social Evening; Debating and Literary Society); Marriage (Miss Dora B. L. Lawder to George Maslin); Presentation to Miss Foster; Girls: a few opinions; Literary Appreciation in the Present Day; The Every-day; The Old Plantation in the Morning; There are Lives to be Saved!; To My Hat (No offence to Mr Bussey is intended); Life - its objects and functions; The Design of a 60-in. Waistcoat; ? (a poem); Recent Additions to the Library; Battersea Polytechnic Annual Sports, help at Merton on June 14th, 1924; Build your own set with Burndept Components (advert). |