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Originally posted by Erik P Conard
William Raimond Baird, a Phi Delta Theta, published the
first "Baird's Manual' many, many, many years ago.
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Actually Baird was a brother of Beta Theta Pi, the first edition was published in 1879, and up until 1940, Beta actually held the copyright to the Manual. However in the interest of interfraternity cooperation Beta sold the rights to the Banta Publishing Co.