Query: "blue laws"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/21/2006 03:58 PM, you wrote:
>Said laws later reinterpreted to dictate the wearing of Eli blue at Yale.
>
>larry

Amusing.  Yet Yale "antedates" the Conn. blue laws; was Eli blue
chosen in the 1780's or later?  Or is this just a New Haven urban
legend?  Can you give me a source?

Joel

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