William Raimond Baird was a patent lawyer and mineralogist, but his hobby was his fraternity and the fraternity world at-large. He spent 25 years as editor of Beta Theta Pi's magazine and his manual
American College Fraternities is considered a definitive reference on the subject. On January 1, 1898, he sat down and penned a note to fellow Beta Theta Pi Francis H. Sisson.
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