Dawn: A Monthly Journal of Educational Sociological and Literary Criticism, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1915

Santa Barbara: Dawn, 1915. An issue of this little magazine founded in late 1913 as The Germ by the millionaire social reformer, educator, and Renaissance Man, Prince (later Pryns, Prynce) Charles Hopkins (1885-1970). In January 1914, the magazine was renamed The Dawn (due to readers' dislike for the disease-sounding name) and Sydney Greenbie (1889-1960) enlisted as its associate editor. By 1915, Greenbie was the sole editor, as well as the director of Boyland (see below) and operated in that capacity until the magazine's dissolution around July, 1916. We suspect that all of the content for this issue was written by Greenbie, including a profile of painter Karl Schmidt and a discussion of Futurism & Cubism; an article on teaching and teachers; two poems; an essay titled "Exiled from Earth - a phantasy of War and Labor"; short editorials on a number of topics; etc.

The Germ/Dawn began publication a year after Hopkins founded Boyland, a libertarian, experimental school for boys inspired by the burgeoning modern school movement. While attending Columbia University, Hopkins began attending anarchist gatherings where he met Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. He became an early benefactor of the anarchist Ferrer School in New York City and later attended Dr. Maria Montessori's training program in San Diego (Boyland became a Montessori school in 1917). The Dawn served as an unofficial mouthpiece for Boyland's activities and pedagogical principles. In 1918, Hopkins was changed under the Espionage Act for attending an IWW meeting and Boyland was raided by federal agents and soon closed. In 1926, Hopkins opened a new school in France.

Sydney Greenbie went on to become an author, educator, and world traveler who wrote many books and plays. He also remained interested in alternative educational models and presided over the "Floating University," which funded a year of studies for college students while they traveled on a cruise, and later Traversity, a similar venture, from 1928-1932. In 1962, Greenbie published the first U.S. edition of Hopkins' memoirs on his Traversity Press, which Hopkins had self-published in Thailand in 1961. Curiously, Barrie Greenbie, himself a Renaissance Man, later recounted that his father had obscured his Jewish lineage and had passed himself off as Swedish.

Stapled, illustrated green wrappers printed in burgundy, [5], 72-94, [12] p. Well-printed, adverts from many local Santa Barbara businesses. Sunning to the wrapper edges, else fine.

REFERENCES: Koegler, Dr. Ronald. "A Renaissance Prince: Prynce Hopkins," Noticias, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2008. https://issuu.com/santabarbaramuseum/docs/83690_noticias_web ;"Sydney Greenbie, Author, 70, Dead." New York Times, 10 June 1960, p. 31.