"I want my dog," 10-year-old Stanley Hillyer, son of Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Pulitzer Prize poet, said through his tears yesterday.
Stanley remained unconsolable for the loss of his canine pal, killed Wednesday afternoon by a car which only barely missed the boy himself. Completely forgetful of his own narrow escape, he could only bewail his 'Patsy.'
Professor Hillyer hastened to say that 'Patsy' would have a successor soon. "It will help to remove the psychological scar of this experience," he commented, after being called from, a College class by the news.
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