Monsignor Richard J. Schuler Monsignor Francis P. Schmitt thinks so, and says so in his address delivered at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the occasion of the gift of the Boys Town music library to the university. Definition of death, even human death, is under great discussion today medically and morally. Death of an organization is even harder to determine.
All institutions pass through periods of greater and lesser activity.
A good example of that is the history of the Caecilian movement in the United States, which flourished in the late nineteenth century, but almost disappeared in the early twentieth century. The Society of St. Gregory of America and the American Cecilian Society. Except for initial gatherings, neither of these mounted large national meetings or sponsored impressive study weeks, chiefly for the reason that the costs of such activities made them impossible. And the same reasoning exists today. National conventions of most educational or learned societies have been considerably curtailed because those who belong are unable to pay for hotels, dinners, air fares.