[3] From the beginning, the fraternity exhorted its members to a high degree of personal and professional conduct.

At its founding, the three men who established the Fraternity wrote in their handwriting into the preamble of its constitution: "We the undersigned students of the Law School of the University of Maine, with a view of establishing on this and other schools of law, as well as in the general practice of the profession, an elevated standard of personal deportment, a high code of professional ethics and a broad and catholic development of mental culture and moral character do associate ourselves in the lasting bonds of a fraternal union under the name of Gamma Eta Gamma."

[1] Its officers were chancellor, proctor, judge, lictor, sheriff, quaestor, recorder, bailiff, and tipstave.

[5] By 2017, there was one remaining active chapter, the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, which is coed.

[3] The fraternity's badge is a shield with a lamp, a star, and a Roman fasces or bundle, above the motto.

[1] Governance is now held by the University of Minnesota Law School chapter which operates as an informal, local fraternity.