←Author Index: Ba William Raimond Baird
(1848–1917)
American writer; While a student at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Class of 1878), Baird sought a larger fraternity with which to merge his own, Alpha Chi Sigma. His efforts were stymied by the lack of reference sources on American fraternities, and so he researched and published his own, first published in 1879 and subsequently known as Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. R. B.* "

Works

See also

  • Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (1920)

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