I don't know the basis of the question, is it a crossword (so defined word length)?
The "Student rode hence after weeks of woodland hunting" sounds very like a paraphrase of the first verse of the song (attributed to both Harvard & Princeton, among others) "Riding Down from Bangor". Details available on the Mudcat site here:
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?ThreadID=51910
Hope this helps.