[Ads-l] Antedating of "Too cool for school"

[Steven Losie]

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL (OED3, 1985)
(The OED also has a bracketed quote from 1981, because it references a
literal school.)

This may also deserve a bracketing, since it appears to reference an actual
school, too:

[begin quote]
Lionel Hampton turned down a chance to lecture at a West Coast university
on the lexicon of jazz. He told profs he couldn't figure out how to define
the language of the hipsters without employing other unintelligible terms.
(If you're hip, you're just too cool for school!)
[end quote]
Source: The News-Herald (Franklin, Penn.), 20 Sept 1951, p.4, col.7 (
newspapers.com)
Article title: Voice of Broadway
Author: Dorothy Kilgallen
https://www.newspapers.com/image/53744734/?match=1&terms=%22too%20cool%20for%20school%22

The above quote is from the syndicated column "The Voice of Broadway"
written by columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, and probably originally appeared in
the New York Evening Journal. The quote was also published the same day as
the above source in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Elmira (NY)
Star-Gazette, both available on ProQuest. Four other newspapers that ran
the column are available on newspapers.com, all published either the same
day or the day after.

[begin quote]
[sub-headline] N'PORT TEEN TALK
1. Alvin and Eva are too cool for school.
[end quote]
Source: Alabama Citizen (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), 9 March 1963, p.2, col.3 (
newspapers.com)
Article title: Teen Talk
https://www.newspapers.com/image/572251482/?match=1&terms=%22too%20cool%20for%20school%22

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