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Ellen Swallow Richards hosts the first ever nutritional school lunch program in Boston, Massachusetts. -
The Smith-Lever Act is passed, resulting in the creation of the Agriculture Extension Service that provided farm women with education in home economics and men with education in agriculture. -
The Smith Hughes Act is passed, establishing federal support for vocational education. -
While maintaining most of the focus towards home management for young women, home economic instruction for young men began in the year of 1918. -
Name changes from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences.