Grieve not for the dead. Rather recall the words of Lawrence Binyon, the
English poet-
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not wither them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
I turn to Pericles for a final salutation and an e~itaph:
"The sacrifice which they collectively made was individually repaid to them;
for they received again each one for himself a praise which grows not old, and the
noblest of all sepulchres-! speak not of that in which their remains are laid, but of
that in which their glory survives, and is proclaimed always and on every occasion in
word and deed. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; not only are
they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in for
eign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on scone but
in the hearrs of men. Make them your examples, and esteeming courage to be
freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."
Ic is not always given to men and to nations to rewrite the verdicts which time
has passed upon them. A century ago such an undisputed verdict was pronounced
upon the once great nations of Greece and Rome--"The glory that was Greece, the
grandeur chat was Rome." In these past three years your people of whom you are so
justly proud have rewritten chat verdict:
The glory that is Greece, the grandeur that was Rome.
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NECROLOGY
ANASTASIO$ AIX>SSIDES
Business Manager of the Agora Excavation, 1931-1940
Consultant of the American School of Classical Studies, 1940-1942
For the School, and for all friends of the School, the tragedy of occupied Greece
has this year been made doubly tragic by the news of the death, on October 9, 1942,
of Anascasios Adossides.
At the time of his dead1, Adossides had been associated with the School for
nearly fifteen years, as Business Manager of the Agora Excavation until 1939, since
then as Consultant for the School itself. But he came to the School only after a
long and distinguished career as a public servant of Greece.
Adossides was born nearly seventy years ago in Constantinople of an old and
aristocratic Greek family. H is formal education was begun in the Greek schools
of Constantinople and completed in Paris. Each contributed its particular share
to his development-it was a development which would have been the natural one
for him, one cannot doubt, even without formal education-as on the one hand, a
Greek, deeply conscious of the heritage of his country and his race, and, on the
other, a true man of the world, in the best sense of chat phrase. There followed a
period of years in journalism, as a correspondent first in Turkey (whe nce he was
forced to escape in disguise), later in Greece and the Balkans. This was a period
when his interest in and his understanding of the issues of Near Eastern politics in
creased and deepened, and when his views about the part Greece might and should
play in those policies, and about the rightness of the Greek cause, hardened into con
victions.
When , early in chis century, he met Eleutherios Venizelos, his background had
prepared him for that meeting and for its results. In Venizelos he found noc only
a lifelong friend but a leader with whom he saw eye to eye on most aspects of the
problems of Greece and her future, and with whom he could work for the cause. It
was not long before he left journalism co ally himself with Venizclos and actively
to enter politics. Himself free of personal ambition, he was content to serve as a
lieutenant; but his practical politician's understanding of human nature (he lacked,
however, the politician's cynicism), and his statesman's grasp of issues combined
to make him one of the most crusted of Venizelos' advisors.
In 1917 he was a member of Venizelos' provisional government in Salonica;
and during the last year of the war and after, he served as Governor of Macedonia,
filling brilliantly an extraordinarily difficult and delicate position. His remark
able talents in both administration and diplomacy were recognized with decorations
by both the British and the French Governments. It is characteristic of Adossides
chat in later years some of his closest friends did not know, at lease from his own
lips, of these honors which had been his. Subsequently be held the prefecture of
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