Nobility is not a necessary qualification.
11.

No moneyless student can belong to it.
12.

Money qualification is nonsense--such a thing has never been thought of.
I got some of this information from students themselves--students who did not belong to the corps.
I finally went to headquarters--to the White Caps--where I would have gone in the first place if I had been acquainted.

But even at headquarters I found difficulties; I perceived that there were things about the White Cap Corps which one member knew and another one didn't.
It was natural; for very few members of any organization know ALL that can be known about it.

I doubt there is a man or a woman in Heidelberg who would not answer promptly and confidently three out of every five questions about the White Cap Corps which a stranger might ask; yet it is a very safe bet that two of the three answers would be incorrect every time.
There is one German custom which is universal--the bowing courteously to strangers when sitting down at table or rising up from it.