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Why was John Ruskin unable to complete an honours degree at the University of Oxford?
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John Ruskin, tinted lithograph published in London, c. 1880.
John Ruskin was unable to complete an honours degree at the University of Oxford because of ill health. Although he spent five years at the university and successfully won the Newdigate Prize for poetry during his time there, his physical condition prevented him from sitting for the honours examinations.1