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The Boston Licensing Board's ruling that bartenders may not eject customers will not affect taverns around the Square.
This is generally the sentiment at the bars that circle the Yard. The "don't let 'em get drunk" school prevails over the discipline of the bouncer and the bar stick in these parts.
"Then the gentlemen with him is kind enough to take him home," says Cronin, but adds hastily that "we never serve them that much, of course."
"If a man is drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal...
"We don't approve of a proprietors roughing up customers or bouncing them into the street or parking them in doorways," declared Licensing Commissioner Walter Miens, but added that "of course the principles of self defense are not to be ignored."