An end to over-long ceremonies

There was a famous occasion in Trinidad a few years ago when an audience, bored out of their minds by an interminable function, decided to take matters into their own hands and exited the seemingly endless and agonizingly dull proceedings. On that day a banner was raised which should not be lightly lowered.

The brave pioneers were the graduating students of St Benedict’s College in Trinidad. On that revolutionary day the vast majority of the students declared enough is enough and walked out of their own graduating ceremony. The ceremony had started at 9 o’clock in the morning and the student walkout