Students have six to eight minutes to persuasively answer the question.
A preliminary competition was already held to narrow down the large number of participants for the final competition. The judges for the preliminaries were communication graduate students from Penn State University. The Hustons, who currently reside in Boalsburg, were formerly from Huntingdon and both served as Juniata College administrators. The oratorical contest has always been a very prestigious event at Juniata with a monetary prize awarded to the winner. In addition, the name of the winner will be permanently inscribed on an antique loving cup presented to the college by Colonel Thornbury s son Thomas Bailey Thornbury.