University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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CARLTON BEECHER STETSON Deceased December 15, 1912

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VOLUME XXVII 31 Elin lfimptg Glhair The old picture of mlqhe Empty Chairi' stirs by its appeal as eternal as the ages and as deep as the fountains are faces old and young with blurred eyes Hxed upon the mated by a vigorous personality that to the longing gazers take form before them and to H11 his old chair once more. very commonplaceness, an of life. Around the table vacant seat, so lately ani- the familiar figure seems to And thus in the circle of our college family, not so large but that each gives the other daily greeting, the chair that one of our number left such a little while' ago recalls at every German class-hour his masterful but kindly presence and awakens a hundred memories of the towering frame, the rich-voiced lecturer, the cheery laughter, the ringing song. A high, degree of enthusiasm made all effort easy, wrote Professor Stetson some four years since in a delightful Cpnic sketch of a Harzreise of his younger days. Such was his spirit not only when he was thus world of Goethe's and l-leineis footprints, of this enthusiasm was his everlasting faith student love of sports, so dear to him in fostered by this Phi Beta Kappa man in during his German wander-years. This fleeting away the time carelessly in the golden but in all the ways of life. And the secret with youth. The student point of view, the his boyhood at l-lebron and at Colby, were many places, at Hopkins and at l-larvard, and sympathy with young life did not wane with grizzling beard, but waxed ever stronger in his service of six years at Exeter, of nine at Colby, often at Vermont. l-lis knowledge of athletics kept full pace with his zealous enthusiasm. The past twenty years knew no athlete of any repute, whose record he could not recallg no game of any importance, whose score was not fresh in his thought. l-le loved too the close companionship of younger men, and his brother Dekes must ever have rejoiced in him. Thus his own youth lingered late. It is hard to realize that when Godis finger touched him, he was so near to sixty. To most of us he seemed a dozen years younger. The zest for sport was but one side of the man. In him, as in all sound natures, there was little empty mirth, but a profoundly serious conception of the higher relations of life. To his church, to his college, to his people, his loyalty was flame-like. At St. Pauls, how' devoutly forward in good works, ever active in vestry and in men's