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Bates College

a coeducational institution in Lewiston, Me.; organized in 1864, under the auspices of the Free Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 40; students, 494; volumes of library, 47,000; endowment, over $1,000,000; number of BATHSHEBA graduates, 2,285; president, Rev. Clifton D. Gray.

Bath Houses

MUNICIPAL. Baths for use of the public. under city control.

Bathometer

an instrument for measuring the depth of sea beneath a vessel without casting a line. It is based upon the fact that the attraction exerted upon any given mass of matter on the ship is less when she is afloat than ashore, because of the less density of sea water as compared with that of earth or rock.

Baths of Agrippa

the earliest of the Roman thermæ; erected by Marcus Agrippa in the reign of Augustus. It Martius, about 20 feet behind the Pantheon.

Baths of Caracalla

one of the most magnificent of the Roman thermæ magnificent of the Roman thermæ in the S. E. part of the city; 2,300 men same time. It was begun in 206 A. D. by Caracalla, and completed by Severus . The ruins which still remain are among the most remarkable in Rome.

Baths of Titus

a structure on the Esquiline hill in Rome ; built by the Emperor Titus. Considerable ruins are found N. E. of the Coliseum.

Battalion

an assemblage of comassemblage of comunit of infantry-that is, the first body and commanded by a field officer (major that is, as a rule, used independently, or lieutenant-colonel). conspicuous in British and Bulgarian

Battersea

a metropolitan borough situation on the S. bank of the Thames, of Greater London, in Surrey, in a low nearly opposite Chelsea, with a fine public park extending over 185 acres. The district is associated with the names of Pope and Bolingbroke, and with the Wellington-Winchelsea duel. Pop. (1918) 149,951.

Battery

in physics. See ELEC- TRICITY.

Bayamo

or SAN SALVADOR, a town in the interior of the E. part of the island of Cuba, situated in a fertile and healthy district on the northern slope of the Sierra Maestra. It is connected by a railway with Manzanilla. Pop. about 5,000.

Baylor University

a coeducational institution in Waco, Tex., founded in 1845, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 56; students, 1,124; volumes in the library, BAY OF ISLANDS 37,900; income, $293,571; number of graduates, 1,945; president, Samuel Palmer Brooks

Bay of Islands

a large, deep and safe harbor on the N. E. coast of the Northland of North Island of New Zealand. On it is Kororarika, the first European settlement in New Zealand. Also a large bay formed by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the W. coast of Newfoundland.