| Description | Bound volume containing issues 70-72 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 17: No.70 Dec 1924. Adverts and Illustration - "A Race for a Face". Articles include: Editorial; What'll I Do? To My Housewifery Notes; A Day with a Knight; Incidents in the Life of a Housewife; Sonnet to the Sea; Paris to London by Air; We Have Benn Told; Letter to the Editor; A Modern Novel, or Bringing Up Father; London, November, 1924; The Catacombs; ? (with apologies to Henry Wandsworth Longfellow); Old Battersea; Club Reports and Social News (boxing club, D.S.R.C., Chess Club; illustration (N.O.C. S.), Association Football Club, Badminton, Women's Hockey Club; Musical Union; Domestic Science Social; R.F.C., Fresher's social, Drama Club; Sketch Club; Hockey Club; The Camera Club; Engineering Society; Literary Debating Society; The Children's Corner (Puss Moth Caterpillars; The Magazine Staff - 1924-5; Oct. 14, 1924; Rudolph Obliges; An Imaginary Conversation between Reason and Feeling; Important Notice (advertising a debate on the motion "that professional careers are undesirable for Women"; Professional Piffle; Battersea Polytechnic Public Health Association; The Worker; Miscellaneous Ads; Battersea and Chelsea Polytechnics Joint Athletic Ground; Battersea Polytechnic Domestic Science Training College; Adverts.
Volume 18: No.71 Mar 1925. Illustration ("Mixed" Badminton); The Devil To Pay (poem); Burning the Midnight Oil; Art and her Critics; The Welsh "Gretna Green"; Advise to D.S. for 1925; Demerara Declares War; To Mabel at a Dance; The Inter-College Cross Country; The Airman's Nightmare; Club Reports and Social News (Athletics, D.S.R.C., Chess Club, Engineering Society, Institute of Electrical Engineers, R.F.C., Musical Union, Dance Club, Sketch Club, Performance of Handel's "Messiah", Students' Social; Social Committee Report, "Professional Careers for Women are Undesirable" (motion defeated), Badminton Club); Experiment to find work done by a student; Children's Corner; Notice (thanks given for an array of different college magazines & others which had been donated); Children are Funny Things; The Slacker (poem); Don't Hurry (poem); Chess Club Supplementary; "The Letter"; A Limerick; Advertisement for Foyles; Cream Buns;
Volume 18: No.72 Jun 1925. Illustration ("The Debagging of the Heros). Articles include: Editorial; Dawn; The Origin of Cricket; Things a certain division wants to know; Three Years of Progress; Professional Piffle; Children's Corner; To My Bags; Recipe for Poly Pudding; Illustration (Entertainments at the sports); Club Reports and the Social News (Exhibition Day "Rag", "Soccer" Club Report, The Women's Swimming Club; Cricket Club, Domestica Science Debating Society; R.F.C.; Sketch Club Report; Camera Club; Social at Sport's Meeting, June 6th 1925; Literary and Debating Society; D.S.R.C. Hockey Meeting, Spring Term, 1925; Women's Hockey Club; Chemical Society; Chess Club; Musical Union, Engineering society; The Colours Committee, May 1925; List of Honors surents; The Spoors, June 6th, 1925; Results of the Athleic club; S.T.C. Vitoids of tiday; Shakespeare in the Refresh; A leaf from the diary of olyo-site; Freedom; Notice; The Tropical Sun; The Merry Month of May; "On Seeing the Club Sec". Room for the first time. |