This image of the back of the Botany Building was taken from the 1941 movie, "Days in College." Note the ivy growing on the building. On June 6, 1936, a Joint Trustee-Faculty Committee on Landscaping agreed that, "Ivy or other vines are to be planted on all college buildings." Professor Nelson Fithian Davis was appointed to collect ivy from the grounds of the university and plant it around the buildings. Trustee David Burpee asked Professor Davis "...to secure at least 2000 such vine plants." At the same meeting, the committee accepted a "truck-load of Peony roots for campus planting" from John B. Stetson, Jr., which would be picked up by "the college truck" at Elkins Part, Pa., in August.

"Ivy or other vines..." and other quotations in this paragraph, BT '20-'50, 6/6/1936

The major source for the information on this page is the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of Bucknell University, 1920-1950 (BT '20-'50).