Baird's Manual of Fraternities and Sororities

[modorney]

Whoops! My Typo! I should have said 1880.

Thanks for the update, badgeguy That's quite a collection there!

The first edition was 1879
The "second" (which was actually called the First Revised Edition) was 1880
The "third" (which was actually called the Second Revised Edition) was 1883

According to the preface (page IV) of the 1883 edition, the 1880 edition was little more than a reprint of the 1879 edition.

I'm wondering if anyone has scanned the 1880 version and posted it online.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by modorney

Whoops! My Typo! I should have said 1880.

Thanks for the update, badgeguy That's quite a collection there!

The first edition was 1879
The "second" (which was actually called the First Revised Edition) was 1880
The "third" (which was actually called the Second Revised Edition) was 1883

According to the preface (page IV) of the 1883 edition, the 1880 edition was little more than a reprint of the 1879 edition.

I'm wondering if anyone has scanned the 1880 version and posted it online.

List of editions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baird%2...e_Fraternities

As far as I can tell from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrig..._Extension_Act , the 1920 (and earlier) edition should be out of copyright, but the 1923 edition won't be out of copyright until 2019.

Is there any chance we could get the NIC to webpublish those editions up to say the 18th in 1968?

At one point I went looking for the editions on books.google.com. I found the 1879(1st), 1898 (5th), 1905(6th), 1912 (7th), 1915 (8th), and 1920(9th). As indicated above 1923 isn't out of copyright, so snippets are on-line. I've seen snippets for some of the more recent, but I haven't bothered to check which have snippets and which aren't there at all.

[badgeguy]

I was able to find a copy of the "mysterious" 1880 edition....in fact it wasnt even titled "first revised edition" as the preface suggests. The NY public library is supposed to have all the editions, and many other books that once belonged to William Baird himself. (He had amassed a huge collection of material in his lifetime)/ The entire collection (minus things related to Beta Theta Pi) was given on loan to the NYPL by the Beta HQ back in the day, with the thought that the entire collection would remain intact, but apparently NYPL never got that note because they totally dispersed the entire collection to many various places!! What a shame!

Anyway, the one copy "1880 edition" I was able to find looks exactly like the 1879 edition except that two or three pages were changed, and an addendum was added to the end to update chapter info, and make a few corrections. One way to notice if one has an 1879 edition or an 1880 edition is to look at the entry for Alpha Tau Omega, if there is a die cut of the badge, then you have an 1880 edition, if not then you have the 1879 edition.......the pages for Phi Kappa Sigma are also different, as is the entry for Pi Kappa Alpha, which in the 1879 edition it was listed as PHI Kappa Alpha and not Pi Kappa Alpha!

I have a digital copy I can share, if you contact me.

Thanks.
BG

Originally Posted by modorney

Whoops! My Typo! I should have said 1880.

Thanks for the update, badgeguy That's quite a collection there!

The first edition was 1879
The "second" (which was actually called the First Revised Edition) was 1880
The "third" (which was actually called the Second Revised Edition) was 1883

According to the preface (page IV) of the 1883 edition, the 1880 edition was little more than a reprint of the 1879 edition.

I'm wondering if anyone has scanned the 1880 version and posted it online.