Antedating of "Yalie"

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:25 AM -0500 2/22/05, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>Yalie (OED 1969)
>
>1941 _Harvard Crimson_ 22 Nov. When we were much younger we had the
>enlightening experience of reading a book about a Yalie named Frank
>Merriwell.
>
>Fred Shapiro

Ouch.  Hard to imagine the credit for the first cite will end up
going to the Crimson, of all sources.  There *has* to be a New
Havenite antedate for this!  Was the Yale Record staff too busy
eating their hot dogs and tossing their frisbees to attest "Yalie"?
Or the Yale Daily News?  Sigh.

Larry