When the project to double the size of the original college building is completed in 1880, the classrooms and laboratories of the school were among the best in the country. Yet Dr. Lane believes that the College would require additional facilities if it were to realize his dream of self-sufficiency and supremacy for the school. At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the College on 18 March 1892, Dr. Lane states enigmatically that he "contemplated improvements in the form of an extension of Cooper medical college." He makes no reference to the nature of these "improvements" until he delivers his "Annual Report of the President" to the Board almost a year later on 23 January 1893.
In that report Dr. Lane states, with obvious pride, that "During the year which has just elapsed the number of matriculates was 178, a greater number of students than at any previous time in the history of the College. There were 38 graduates; the proficiency of these as well as of the Juniors and Freshmen, was in general of a high order." He then added: To increase the efficiency in the work of Clinical Instruction, I will soon create a hospital on the grounds of the Corporation, with facilities for caring for about one hundred patients; and the funds for erecting the hospital will be furnished by myself. The new hospital and its administration are discussed.
Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses, inaugurated by Mrs. Lane in 1895, is but one of her many significant contributions to the farsighted and generous designs of her husband.
The Lane Course of Medical Lectures is announced by Dr. Lane at the meeting of the Board of Directors of Cooper Medical College on 26 August 1895.
Early Plans for Lane Medical Library are described by Dr. Rixford 35-36 Contributions to medical teaching program by Stanford Professor of Physiology Oliver Peebles Jenkins are outlined.
Biographical sketches are included for the following:
Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949)
William Ophuls (1871-1933)
Albert Abrams (1863-1924)