The frontispiece and title page of the 1879 edition of Baird's was posted to the "Badge Trends" thread.
Here is the link to the entire book (thank you, Google Books):
http://books.google.com/ebooks/reade...&output=reader
My initial observations: resolved chapters are called "dead"; some chapters were so secret that the college wasn't named; Baird listed locals and 'class societies' (for freshmen, sophomores, etc.). "Ladies' Societies" start on p. 143 and are: Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Delta Sigma Tau, Delta Chi Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Kappa Kappa Gamma. (Both Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Kappa were extant then--Pi Phi still I.C. Sorosis--I wonder why Baird didn't include them. Pi Phi was 'chaptered,' to use Baird's term, and he did included locals.)
This scanned edition has marginal comments. It would be interesting to know who the annotator was (and his (her?) motive).
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