Antedating of "Yalie"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>
> Yalie (OED 1969)
>
> 1932 _Daily Princetonian_ 12 Apr. 2 (Online archive)  A Princeton pitcher
> invented the curve ball to bewilder the Yalies.

Fred previously found an example in the 10/29/32 Yale Daily News:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1209E&L=ADS-L&P=R1041&I=-3

Just to reclaim this for New Haven, the YDN used "Yalies" as the
heading for the "Ten-Twenty Topics" column of 2/17/32:

http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yale-ydn/id/177202/rec/4

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