Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember friendships that originated and received a glowing impulse over a bottle of wine; they know that for the removal of narrowness and prejudice they owe a debt to alcohol. Men have quarreled at Harvard in their cups, and men have been maudlin over one another in their cups; but between these manifestations of extreme emotion brought on by excessive indulgence have been many more numerous instances of men who have been led through the mellowing influence of rum to discover one another and, to a less but still a useful degree, themselves...