He eventually joined the Harvard faculty, but during an early hiatus in his Harvard teaching career, he worked at a research laboratory at the Kennicott Copper Corporation.

Eugene Rapperport, one of his colleagues there, said Loeb frequently brought acquaintances such as Fuller to the laboratory for seminars.

“He looked upon it as a sort of intellectual Camelot. There he spread his wings,” Rapperport said.

At the end of his memorial speech, Rapperport bowed his head and wept. “We will miss him,” he said. “He enriched our lives.”

Amy C. Edmondson ’80, one of Loeb’s former students who is now an associate professor at the Business School, said Loeb’s devotion as an educator inside and outside the classroom inspired her to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering and design sciences.

“Arthur Loeb exemplified teaching as a high calling,” she said.

Loeb’s former colleague, Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti ’64, said Loeb brought extraordinary artists and scholars to the University. He praised Loeb’s curiosity and intelligence in prepared comments read by Arnheim Lecturer Robb Moss.

“Nobody had the heart to break it to him that there were people not as brilliant as he,” Guzzetti wrote. “Like many of us, I expected him to live to be 100.”

On Saturday, the church was adorned with dyed banners that Loeb had designed, and one of his watercolor paintings hung in the atrium.

He and his wife had been members of several choirs during his life, and the ceremony included three musical interludes performed in his honor.

Santiago finished her eulogy by alluding to Loeb’s eagerness to create new patterns and designs.

“I know that today heaven is a much more organized and much more pleasant place than it was before,” she said.