| Description | Bound volume containing issues 19-24 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Students' Representative Councils. Dates and contents of issues are summarised below:
Volume 4: No.19, Oct 1911. Copy of etching by Miss E. Robertson and index before title page. Articles include: Editorial; Day Students' Representative Council; Tennis Club; Hockey Club; Literary Society's Visits to Chelsea; Engineering Society; Single Phase V. Commutation Motors; Dramatic Society; Training Dept. of Domestic Science (Teaching Appointments Gained & Changes of Appointment); Success of Former Student of Phsical Training Dept. for Women (Miss M. McKee); Visit to London Slaughter-Houses; Institute of Certified Grocers; Testing of Creosote; Chief Examination Successes; Chemistry of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; News from Central Africa; Girls' School of Domestic Economy; Oh, Dear! (Plea for better answers to two questions); Correspondence (including letter to the editors entitled 'A Library or a Museum?' from 'a bookworm'; Advertisement for a set of Stanley drawing/ surveying instruments.
Volume 4: No.20, Dec 1911. Articles include: Editorial; Athletic Meeting, 1912; Old Students' Association Annual Meeting; Day Students' Clubs (Literary & Debating Society; Engineering Society; Swimming Club; Rifle Club); Battersea Polytechnic Music Department (including a score for Minuet by F.C. Harrop); Evening Students' Clubs (Literary & Debating Society; ESRC Social Evening; Football Club; Tennis Club; Badminton Club; Rhodanthe Socials Committee; Rhodanthe Dance & Presentation of Tennis Prizes; Training Dept. of Domestic Science); Battersea Polytechnic Hostel; A Christmas Treat for Children; Advanced Lectures - Chemistry Dept.; The Biter Bit (humorous short about a school inspector); On the Formation of Dust Striations By An Electric Spark; News from an Old Student in Australia; Correspondence (includes a response to the 'bookworm' who wrote in to the editors in the previous issue, from an R. Mégroz); Coming Events. NB Please note: there is a correction in Issue No. 21 (p93) which relates to p62, the article on Battersea Polytechnic Hostel.
Volume 4: No.21, Feb 1912. Articles include: Editorial; Engineering Society; Day Students' Literary and Debating Society; Rifle & Badminton Clubs; Literary & Debating Society; Tennis Club; Club Accounts; Stray Thoughts on Musical Subjects; "Mrs Gorringe's Necklace," by the Dramatic Society; Annual Re-union of the Domestic Science Training Department; The Children's Christmas Treat; Costume Performance by Elocution Students; Examination Successes; "Be Blessed," an Eastern Idyll; Advanced Chemistry Lectures; Chemical Dept.; General Notes (New Buildings; Athletic Sports; Musical Lectures; Inter-club Social; Reviews; From Our Contemporaries); Correspondence; Coming Events.
Volume 4: No.22, Mar 1912. Articles include: Editorial; Students' Clubs (Literary & Debating Society; Cricket Club; Tennis Club; School of Art Sketch Club Social; Old Scholars' Club; Athletic Sports Committee; Swimming Club; Rifle Club; Day Students' Literary & Debating Society; Engineering Club; Women's Gymnasium); Annual Conversazione (includes illustration titled 'The Sudent Joy Wheel'); Special Announcements; The First Moon-stone;' Paper Bag' Cookery; Special Note from Library; Training Department of Domestic Sciences; A Correction; New Equipment; Hygiene Department; Notes on the Growth of an Overture; An International Language; Correspondence; Coming Events; Advertisement for W. & G. Foyle's Bookstore, Charring Cross Road and Henry Good & Son Modern Office Equipment Specialists.
Volume 4: No.23, May 1912. Articles include: Editorial (photograph of His Honour Judge Benson, Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, before this); Opening of New Hygiene Laboratories & Distribution of Prizes; Fifth Annual Athletic Meeting; The Athletic Ground; Students' Clubs (Tennis Club; Football Club; Swimming Club; Debating Society of the Domestic Science Dept.; Engineering Society; Literary & Debating Society; The Polytechnic Porters (a poem); Dramatic Society (The Importance of Being Earnest& David Garrick); Choral Society & Orchestra; Musical Dept.; Annual Gymnastic Display by Students of the Women's Gymnasium; The Present Day Girl (a poem); Men's Gymnastic Display; Photographic Exhibits; Hygiene Dept. Examination Successes; Marriages; Outdoor Fête at the Polytechnic Athletic Ground; Chemistry in the English Language.
Volume 4: No.24, Jul 1912. Articles include: Editorial; The Polytechnic Fête; Inter-Polytechnic Sports; The DSRC; Literary & Debating Society; Tennis Club; Swimming Club; "The British Printer"; Drapers' Hygiene Laboratories; Chemical Dept. The Creation of Woman; The Gymnastic Students at the National Gymnastic Fete; Dramatic Performance by Elocution Students; An Interesting Model Petrol Engine (reproduced from "The Motor Car Journal"; Engineering Exhibition at Whitechapel; Library Books; Loss of the "Titanic" Lord Mayor's Fund; Successes of Polytechnic Students; Correspondence (including a letter to Dr Rawson, the Principle, from an ex-student, G RE Storer, Living in California; and , mention of the anonymous writer "Bookworm"). |