| Description | Bound volume containing issues 25-30 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Students' Representative Councils. Includes an index of subjects and illustrations at the front of the volume. Dates and contents of issues are summarised below:
Volume 5: No.25, Oct 1912. Articles include: Editorial; Old Students' Association; New Developments in the Work of the Polytechnic; Changes in Polytechnic Staff; Clubs & Societies (tennis club; cricket club, hockey club, football club, day students' cycling club; dramatic society; an invitation); Girls' School of Domestic Science; Index; Inter-Polytechnic Sports; Chemical Deptartment; Engineering Dept.; Visit to Certain Railway Works; A Trip to the White Man's Grave; Art, A Symposium; The Coming Shortage of Teachers; Field Discharge on Large Generators; Correspondence.
Volume 5: No.26, Dec 1912. Articles include: Editorial; Old Students' Association AGM; Scholarships awarded by OSA; School of Art; Day Students' Representative Council; Evening Students' Representative Council; The Athletic Ground, Red Post Hill, Dulwich; Engineering Society; Literary and Debating Society; Cycling Club; Men's Hockey Club; Football Club; Cricket Club; Miniature Rifle Club; The Training Dept. of Domestic Science Debating Society, teaching appointments gained and cockey club; Physical Training Dept.; Literary & Debating Society; Mrs Dane's Defence; Polytechnic Athletic Sports; Student's Visit to Varnish Works; Women Students at the Front; Hygiene Department (recognition of the Battersea Polytechnic Certificate for Health Visitors by the Local Government Board); A Correction (from the Colliery Company); Chief Examination Successes.
Volume 5: No.26, Feb 1913. Articles include: Editorial; Gift of £7000 (from Mr Edwin Tate); Annual Prize Day; Annual Conversazione; OSA Forthcoming Bazaar; Annual Athletic Sports; Presentation to Mr F. A. Stammers; Examination Successes; Over! (A poem); The Edwin Tate Library; Our Thanks (A poem of thankfulness for the Tate Library and Tate Scholarship Fund & The Drapers' Company's Hygiene Block; Day Students' Football Club; Ladies' Hockey Club; Men's Hockey Club; Literary & Debating Society; Rifle Club; Badminton Club; Dramatic Society; Engineering Society; A Visit to Lagos; Training Dept. of Domestic Science (annual reunion & Students' Debating Society); The Children's Christmas Party; Physical Training Dept. "At Home"; The Christmas Party at the Hostel; On the Road to Simla; Costume Performance by Elocution Students; Mendelssohn's "Elijah" by the Choral Society & Orchestra; Music at the Battersea Polytechnic; A Hermit of the Ardennes; The Reward of Selfishness (from the Chinese); Correspondence.
Volume 5: No.28, Mar 1913. Articles include: Editorial; Annual Prize Distribution; Dramatic Teaching in Schools; Diplomas Gained by Students in the Training Department of Domestic Science; Teaching Appointments; Training Dept. of Domestic Science - Students' Debating Society; Annual Conversazione; Engineering Society; Mixed Hockey; Men's Hockey Club; "At The Barn"; Love's Last Message; Pharmaceutical Histology; Evening Students' Representative Council (ESRC); Education Publications;
Volume 5: No.29, May 1913. Articles include: Editorial; OSA Bazaar; Inter-Polytechnic Sports; The Royal Academy (artwork by member of staff G. Pocock, displayed in Royal Academy's Spring Exhibition); Sixth Annual Athletic Sports; The Discredited Tech (A Personal Lament); Physics Colloquium; The Athletic Ground; Examination Successes; Domestic Science Debating Society; Engineering Society; Tennis Club; Swimming Club; Day Students' Cricket Club; Day Football Club; Rifle Club; Hockey Club; Literary and Debating Society; A Polytechnic Student's Marriage (Miss M. I. Johnson to Mr Harold Alderton); Domestic Economy in Egypt; Men's Gymnastic Display; First Impressions of Canada; Women's Gymnastic Display; An Old Fashioned May Day; Dramatic Performance by Students of the Elocution Classes ("The School for Scandal"); The Choral Society Orchestra; Concert By Music Students; Visit to Wimbledon Sewage Works; Notes & Queries; Correspondence (regarding books in the library kept behind 'the grill', references 'Bookworm's letter' and signs off 'Bookworm Minimus');
Volume 5: No.30, Jul 1913. Articles include: Editorial; OSA Bazaar; Financial Results & Presentation to Miss Thomas; The Magazine; Changes on the Polytechnic Staff; Inter-Polytechnic Sports, 1913; A Retrospect (a poem); Nigeria (account of the country by former student Mr C. Wimberley); Training Department of Domestic Science (Four-Year Course of Training); New Hostel; From the C_______ Dept.; National Gymnastics Display (including a procession lead by Miss Morse of Battersea); Physics Colloqium; Tennis Club; Resignation of Mr Downs; Chemical Tour; Athletic Ground; Hygiene Dept. Examination Success; Correspondence. |