| Description | Bound volume containing issues 42-44 of The Battersea Polytechnic Magazine, produced by the Battersea Polytechnic Day Students' Representative Council. Dates and summarised contents of issues are given below:
Volume 8: No.42, Dec 1915. Photograph of Second-Lieutenant F. H. Johnson (Formerly Chariman of the Day Students' Representative Council & Late Editor of "The Polytechnic Magazine"). Articles include: Editorial (which mentions Dr Newman, the new Principal); The First Polytechnic V.C.; Roll of Honour (includes names of students killed during World War One - Private Albert William Alder, Seargeant S. G. Eaton, Private F. N. Dexter, Seargeant E. T. Croager and also information about Lieut. A. N. Harris who was reported missing ); Roll of Distinction; Letter from The Front (from Sergeant W. H. China); Personal; The Luxurious War!; Photo of a munitions class at work; A Nurse in Serbia (Miss Monica Stanley); Polytechnic War Fund; Rawson Memorial Fund; D.R.S.c., 1915-16; Rifle Club; Engineering Society; Engineering Society Visits to Works; A Short Record of the Successes Gained by the Art Department During Session 1914-15; Physical Training Dept.; The Domestic Science Training Department Debt. Society; Training Dept. of Domestic Science; Annual General Meeting of Old Students' Association (includes information that Dr Newman will take on Presidency after Dr Rawson's death); Statement of Receipts & Expenditure, September 1st 1914 - August 31st 1915; Financial Statement, 31st August 1915; Comind Events; Battersea Polytechnic page on courses offered);
Volume 8: No.43, Mar 1916. Photograph of Lieutenant V. B. Haskins (3rd East Surrey Regiment). Articles include: Editorial; Practical Help for the Wounded; Presentation to Lieut. Johnson; Roll of Honour (Lieut. Victor B. Haskins, former engineering Student; and Private T. Turland - 2nd London Territorial Royal Engineers); Roll of Distinction (Seventh List); Our Students and the War; Inspection and Demonstrations; Annual Conversazione; A Day at the Front (by E. B. Wrench); A Correction; Training Dept. of Domestic Science; Engineering Society; Engineering Society Visits to Works; Britain's Way (poem); The Children's Christmas Party); War Whys and Otherwise; Prize Distribution; Hygiene & hysiology Dept Appoinment of Miss F. K. Taylor.
Volume 8: No.44, Jun 1916. Photograph of Lieutenant F. H. Johnson. R.E., V.C. (student from the engineering department 1911-15 who obtained the Victoria Cross). Articles include: Editorial; Captain T. W. Lonsdale (day college student who died from wounds in World War One on June 5th 1916. Was awarded a military cross.); Presentation to Lieut. Johnson, V.C. (of an oil painting portrait of himself which happened in The Great Hall); Engineering Society General Meeting; "Theaccusingconscience" - circumstances we should have liked explained; Engineering Society - Visits to Works (South Suburban Gas Works, Pascall's Chocolate Factory, Messrs. Drew-Bear, Perks & Co., The Daily Chronicle Printing Offices); The Entertainment and Teac to Wounded Soldiers (details an afternoon performance of "Twelfth Night" by students of the Elocution Classes, a tea provided by Messrs. Kingston, Miller & Co. and a 'smoking concert' with songs and recitations); A Dirge (with apologies to Tennyson); Roll of Distinction - eight list; Domestic Society Training Dept. Debating Society (details of an animated debate on whether "places of amusement should be closed in War-time"); Hygiene - Physiology Dept. Examination Successes; Old Students' Association (Annie Katharine Young Bequest); Westminster Abbey; Training Dept. of Domestic Science - appointments; The Land of Chemia; Physical Training Dept. |