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Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes officiated the service, and the event included speeches by colleagues and students who had worked closely with Beer throughout his time at the University...
...eulogies emphasized a common theme: not only was Beer an accomplished academic, but he also cared about the people who he collaborated with...
Following a hymn at the beginning of the service, Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who first took a course with Beer as sophomore at the College, recalled the first time that the two met.Mansfield remembered Beer as a professor who taught with passion and “made his points with fists rather than with fingers...
...ability to engage students with the course materials. Melvin Richter ’43, who served as a teaching fellow in one of Beer’s famous courses, Social Sciences 2, said that the course was of a “strikingly original format” in which Beer would evaluate two opposing theories for each of the six political events addressed in the course...
Richter added that Beer was “a quite wonderful and irreplaceable man who enriched the lives of those who were lucky enough to know him.”Other speakers remembered Beer’s experiences before he came to Harvard...