International Medical Congress of 1877. Dr. Lane is appointed to membership on the Planning Committee for this important gathering sponsored by the American Medical Association. Dr. Beverly Cole, first Dean of the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, (since defected to become Dean of the Medical Department, University of California) manages through political machinations to remove Dr. Lane and some other prominent people from the Planning Committee. Dr. Lane is incensed and makes a public issue of the matter, but there is no evidence that Dr. Lane's indignant reproof troubles Dr. Cole in the slightest.
An addition is made to the College Building in 1890. In 1890. As an extension of the original College building, Dr. Lane erects, entirely at his own expense, another handsome brick and stone structure of equal size and similar architecture.
Revision of Faculty Bylaws, biographies of Drs. Rixford and Stanley Stillman, and a progress report on the curriculum and library are outlined.
1891 marks the founding of Stanford University and the Appointment of David Starr Jordan as President.
Dr. Lane exacts a pledge from the Faculty that they will never permit Cooper Medical college to be taken over by a University.