Anticipating the final transfer of all properties and programs of Cooper Medical College to Stanford University on 1 July 1912, the Directors and Faculty took various steps to complete the business of the College and effect the merger.
Transfer of Medical Clinic to Stanford. The first class of Stanford students having now advanced to the clinical stage of their studies, the Directors voted on 11 May 1911 to turn over the Medical Clinic to Stanford. on 1 July. [52]
Bust of Doctor Lane Cast in Bronze. In memory of the benefactor, the Directors voted on 2 June 1911 to have the marble bust of Dr. Lane cast in bronze. The original elegant sculpture itself remains in the Lane Library building in San Francisco, and the bronze replica now graces the entryway to the Lane Library at Stanford University Medical Center. [53]
Contribution to Construction of Lane Medical Library
As we shall later discuss, the Trustees of Stanford University agreed to construct a Lane Medical Library building. When the cost of construction was found to exceed the funds available, the Trustees requested the Board of Directors of Cooper Medical College to contribute $20,000. The Directors responded as follows to Timothy Hopkins, President of the Stanford Board of Trustees: [54]
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June 1911 We, the Directors of Cooper Medical College, understand that your Board is unwilling by reason of the extra expense necessarily to be incurred therein, to erect the contemplated Lane Medical Library Building at the corner of the lot which was purchased for that purpose; and that in order to erect a suitable library building at said corner you will need twenty thousand dollars in addition to the amount which your Board has set aside for the purpose of erecting the library building. Cooper Medical College is prepared to turn over to you at once the needed twenty thousand dollars . . . on the assurance that no demand will be made on Cooper Medical College for a specific amount for the maintenance of free beds.. . .(Upon receiving such an assurance ) the College will turn over to you on demand, twenty thousand dollars, said sum to be used in a Library Building to be erected at the corner of said library lot so as to make it a corner building. The decisive action of the Cooper Directors in thus making funds available for construction of the library assured that the vital project designed to memorialize Dr. Lane could proceed without further delay. The last recorded meeting of the Directors of Cooper Medical College was held on 16 August 1911, and their last recorded action as governors of the College was to authorize payment to the Stanford Trustees of the last installment on the $20,000 they had agreed to provide. for the Lane Library building. |
Election of a New Dean and Other Officers. In the interval between the death of Dr. Gibbons on 27 September 1911 and the memorial service on 8 December 1911, the College Faculty convened on 16 October and elected George B. Somers, Professor of Gynecology, as Dean. Professor Adolph Barkan was elected as President and Professor Ophüls as Vice President of the Faculty. Their terms of service were to end on 1 July 1912 when the last of Cooper properties came under Stanford control.
Final Commencement of Cooper Medical College. On Thursday evening at eight o'clock, May ninth 1912, the thirty-first and final Commencement Exercises of Cooper Medical College were held in the College Auditorium. President Edward R. Taylor conferred degrees on 31 graduates. He also gave an address of which we have no record. This is unfortunate for the occasion called for such oratorical heights as only President Taylor could have attained. . Appropriately, the orchestra concluded the Exercises with a spirited rendition of the march entitled "Flag of Victory."
Final Transfer of Cooper Properties to Stanford. President Jordan, in his Annual Report to the Stanford Trustees for the year ending July 31, 1913, described the final stage of transfer of the Cooper properties: [55]
The final transfer of the Cooper Medical College and Lane Hospital properties, which constituted then the Medical Department of the University, was accomplished and reported to the Board of Trustees on August 1, 1912. In recognition of the admirable spirit in which the directors and faculty of the College have conducted the negotiations leading to this transfer, and in recognition of their efforts to raise and maintain the standards of medical education on the Pacific Coast, the following resolutions were adopted by the Board, which should be here recorded: Whereas, On the first day of July, 1912, Cooper Medical College and Lane Hospital, did, by agreements previously made, pass from the control of the Directors of Cooper Medical College to the Trustees of Stanford University; and Whereas, All the negotiations between the Trustees and the Directors attending the transfer of the properties and the assumption by the Trustees of the obligations belonging thereto have been most harmonious and satisfactory; and Whereas, The Directors have shown the utmost reliance on the good faith of the Trustees; Now, therefore, be it resolved, that this Board desires to express to the former Directors of Cooper Medical College its appreciation of their broad-minded action in all the transactions between the two bodies; and Be it further resolved, that the Secretary of the Board be instructed to transmit to the Directors a copy of this minute and resolution. |
In the same Annual Report, President Jordan followed the above resolution with an important announcement: "At a special meeting of the Board of Trustees, on November 29, 1912, Mr. Herbert Clark Hoover, an alumnus of the University , Class of 1895, was elected to fill the vacancy in the Board created by the death of Hon. Whitelaw Reid."
Revised: 28 April 1997
Supplement to Chapter 31
The number of medical graduates annually from each of the following Predecessor Schools is provided below:
Medical Department, University of the Pacific
1859-1864
1870-1871
Medical College of the Pacific
1872-1881
Cooper Medical College
1882-1912
Medical Graduates of the Predecessor Schools
| Medical Department |
Cooper | ||
|
Year | Graduates |
Year | Graduates |
| 1859 | 2 |
1882 | 12 |
| 1860 | 1 |
1883 | 13 |
| 1861 | 5 |
1884 | 16 |
| 1862 | 5 |
1885 | 19 |
| 1863 | 8 |
1886 | 11 |
| 1864 | 7 |
1887 | 28 |
| 1865 - 1869 | 1888 |
14 | |
| 1889 |
41 | ||
| 1890 |
18 | ||
| 1891 |
29 | ||
| 1870 |
8 | 1892 |
38 |
| 1871 |
8 | 1893 |
42 |
| Total |
44 | 1894 |
73 |
| Medical
College | 1895 |
64 | |
| 1896 |
37 | ||
| 1897 |
45 | ||
| 1872 |
10 | 1898 |
47 |
| 1873 |
14 | 1899 |
44 |
| 1874 |
8 | 1900 |
38 |
| 1875 |
13 | 1901 |
27 |
| 1876 |
22 | 1902 |
25 |
| 1877 |
13 | 1903 |
45 |
| 1878 |
26 | 1904 |
44 |
| 1879 |
15 | 1905 |
38 |
| 1880 |
7 | 1906 |
31 |
| 1881 |
9 | 1907 |
29 |
| Total |
137 | 1908 |
27 |
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| 1909 | 19 |
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1910 | 17 |
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1911 | 23 |
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1912 | 36 |
| Total |
990 | ||
| Medical Department, University of the Pacific | 44 | ||
| Medical College of the Pacific |
137 | ||
| Cooper Medical College | 990 | ||
| Total Graduates of the Predecessor Schools |
1171 | ||