{wo provincial graduates in Hunan have attained the age of eighty years, and moreover have completed a cycle of sixty years since they first obtained their degree. After holding various official appointments, they have both spent many years as literary professors in public colleges. At the request of the Governor of the Province it is, ordered that after the approaching exaninations they be invited to attend at the banquet which is given to the newly selected graduates; and to one of them, who already holds rank of the third class, the Emperor gives a button of the secon
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